[…] auditing department of his church until his recent retirement. Strangely, he retained his membership in both churches for more than half a century. Moving from the Mormon-dominated Rocky Mountains where he was born to […]
[…] Latter-day Saints just can’t write perceptively about their community. Often, these assertions are offered as a justification for the recent proliferation of the Hollywood Mormon crime dramas that claim to portray the realities that […]
[…] motion picture Mondo Cane taught us that the chronicler’s job is to assemble his collectanea in straight forward reportage. Dr. Palmer’s book is a lucid chronicle (from 1851 to 1969) of some missionarying Mormons […]
From safe within the geographical and philosophical matrix that is the Church, it is often difficult for people my age and older to realize that such a thing as a “generation gap” may in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and early years. Thorough in all things, he acquired the habit of consulting the best available references for events which he had not personally observed and he wove this detail smoothly into his own […]
[…] significant addition to the source material available to scholars. One who has contributed significantly to this ef fort — having done much field work in the area — is Dr. Milton Backman, Jr. of […]
[…] writing a profile of women in L.D.S. leadership positions, largely General Board members, and I am there- fore soliciting your response to the enclosed questionnaire. As you already know, there are many kinds of […]
[…] not yet come. She glanced at the round clock above the doorway. He had four minutes be fore she would consider him late. And she must now decide whether to look up as he […]
[…] out that as fiction the subject was strictly a zero. Who would believe it? Mr. Taylor settled for what he does best: historical fiction—a fortuitous blend of the historian’s facts and the raconteur’s insight and […]