[…] and later Oxford University in England where he studied literature. He then embarked on a career in writing and published numerous articles and cartoons in various magazines. During World War II he worked for […]
[…] one of the issues causing internal dissent but did not mention other Nauvoo polygamists. Although some scholarly writing has linked polygamy in Nauvoo to Smith’s death, studies of polygamy typically overlook Nauvoo and begin […]
[…] articles and essays that seem to the editors to have had watershed significance. By that we mean writing in whose wake our thinking about value or doctrine or factual circumstance has been substantially affected, […]
[…] those who seek not for “just the facts,” but for large conceptual and interpretive frame works. Shipps’s writing is focused not only on events and trends within Mormon history, but also on how that […]
[…] Jr., seems to have joined, according to Paul, the “die-hard categorizers.” It could have been Old Dad writing when Paul complains about people like his older brother Claude, Jr.,: “They make me so damn […]
[…] the Joseph F. Smith administration. I talked with a friend of mine who’s a member of that writing committee and said, “You know, you put us in a real bind. We in the sciences […]
[…] when I tried to get through it quickly to write this review, then a second time while writing the review. Again and again I found that my initial objections to Ostler’s explanations of LDS doctrine […]
[…] like the father he is, and headed down the hall for the kids’ room. I studied the writing in the envelope’s window, which read something like, “This hereby certifies that Cynthia Elizabeth Franklin and […]
[…] focus on “serious scholarship,” those works which “might be best described as honest efforts at responsible, non-polemical writing” (p. x). In the second section, the editors faced a somewhat different challenge of devising a […]
[…] in the church, I recognized aspects of life as a Mormon that seemed distinctive. These included lay service without much whining, very little ecclesiastical jockeying for position, service offered generously in the ward and […]