[…] Washington: — “While we do not suggest they have done so because of any conspiracy or grand design, nevertheless on occasion, as we demonstrate in this chapter, the LDS leadership has appealed to these […]
[…] understand the medical profession, they were given a tour of the college, including the place where the human body was studied by cutting up corpses. “Now, you need to understand, Grandpa was a delicate […]
Dear Sirs: I was very pleased to read the David L. Wright material in the Summer issue. Jim Miller’s “Introduction” and “Dave Elegy” form an outstanding preface to “The Con science of the Village.” To…
Dear Sirs: We had never heard of Dialogue until we made a trip to California to visit the people who had converted us eight years before. It opened up new vistas which we knew must…
[…] became old maids at twenty-two or three. I agree that housewives and mothers should be recognized as human beings who carry on a valuable, although not glamorous, task in our society, just as garbage […]
[…] articulate the limitations on their use of power. Power is seductive. And leaders, especially religious, moralistic, or humanitarian ones, can be tempted to believe that power is safe in their hands. After all, they’re […]
[…] much. After that first district, the number of missionaries entering the LTM began to decline. Whether by design or accident, more missionaries enter the MTC during the summer months than at any other time, […]
[…] revere. My husband suffered through these tales with amazing good humor and patience. “Well, the prophets were human, too,” he must have said over a hundred times. At other times, he questioned the motives […]
Mary Firmage, daughter of President Hugh B. Brown, has recently deposited a large collection of her father’s personal letters in the Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president…
by Stacy Burton The Province of the Extreme Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 372 pp. Reviewed by Stacy Burton, Associate Professor, Department of English,…