[…] to assess the current scholarly literature on the Mormons in Illinois, or on Mormon history in general for that matter, he would probably be perplexed. While compelled to admit that the studies are informative […]
[…] the Mormons were so ferociously constrained from their attempt to establish at Nauvoo a society that was for them the beginning of the Kingdom of God on Earth. The “Mormon Question,” as it was […]
[…] the Book of Mormon to his friend, Sidney Rigdon. It was to be a most opportune meeting for both Rigdon and the representatives of the infant Mormon movement. The Book of Mormon gave Rigdon […]
[…] I joined the L.D.S. Church. In the thirteen years since, I have developed great affection and respect for some Mormon country people. They are my friends. No, I haven’t grown to love messiness, but […]
This paper was written during the summer of 1968 for a course in special problems in the acquisition of materials at the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service. The original paper has been revised […]
[…] McKay on his world tour of misisons in 1921. You share his tremulous wonder as he sees for the first time the ancient Asia. And you tremble there on that brink, knowing that like […]
[…] bad, economically, in Europe and particularly in England. In Utah, as in most developing economies, the need for human resources was high. Emigration committees were formed and funds collected and pooled to assist the […]
[…] or any other version) with anyone who doesn’t read it as literature but merely searches its pages for proofs of his predilections and prejudices. The proof-texting reader has never read the Bible. One must […]
[…] of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was essential. Millions of […]
Thus Clinton Larson in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary […]