[…] pitifulness (“It’s not her fault, she wants to marry.”), tolerate only facetious exultings in the unencumbered life, for to be seriously exultant is to be instantly suspected of unrighteousness. To be too happy brings […]
[…] and by viewing them as individuals and not stereotypes. My article is being prepared . . . for a forthcoming issue of Dialogue which is to be devoted to exploring feminine, Mormon responses to […]
[…] that when we got home, he was, as Will expressed it, “burned to a frazzle.” Will reached for the mentholatum—his favorite remedy for everything, I was soon to learn—and started to apply it with […]
[…] The results provide pleasant glimpses of Utah’s traditional heritage to the casual reader as well as stimulation for the professional folklorist. The reminiscences survey numerous aspects of Utah existence in earlier days. Juanita Brooks […]
[…] Can the study of history produce a personal philosophy that will be satisfying—or should one even look for such a philosophy in history? Can one find a basis for value judgements in history? Is […]
If J. Reuben Clark, Jr., will be remembered largely for his involvement in international affairs, another Mormon leader, Reed Smoot, is notable for his contribution both to international relations and domestic American affairs. In […]
[…] the history-keeping activities of the Church, of “writing, copying, selecting, and obtaining all things which shall be for the good of the church, and for the rising generations that shall grow up on the […]
[…] a number of years ago. I was trained as a mineral engineer so that it is natural for me to interpret the seven periods of creation as long geological ages. Radioactive dating and other […]
Joseph Fielding Smith is a name that has been known to the Latter-day Saints for well over sixty years. His leadership and counsel have been manifest in the leading councils of the Church since […]
[…] street to avoid him. Business ventures collapsed; credit ceased. But what hurt most was that a man for whom the Church had been his entire life—he’d been an apostle since the age of twenty-five—now […]