[…] be able to make a movie based on this plot in 1984? The Mormon History Association’s choice for the best book on Mormon history published in 1973 is Charles S. Peterson’s Take Up Your […]
[…] fact that one can mention Stegner and Larson together points up the difficulty in defining Mormon literature, for Stegner is not a Mormon writer though he has written about Mormon life. On the other […]
[…] hardly a growth, but accident, catastrophe, sudden disease, or mere insufficiency; the green and brown remain for the most part as they are, and species may leaf, bloom, fruit or fade at […]
Books are no substitute for living, but they can add immeasurably to its richness. —May H. Arbuthnot, Children and Books If we accept the value Ms. Arbuthnot places upon books, the Mormon community is indeed […]
As an exercise in empathy, it would be well for us Mormons to project ourselves into the thoughts and feelings of those who may be quite different from us. For one thing, our missionary […]
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land. —D & C 58:21 . . . for […]
I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in […]
“Oh Mother, Father will look so pretty for his wedding!” In these words this book begins and one feels instantly the poignant picture of the woman, Melissa, pressing her husband’s suit, a job she […]
[…] Derniers Jours repeats many of the old translations, with occasional improvement, completes the process of translation ( for example, adding the fourth verse of “Come, Come Ye Saints”), and adds newer hymns, mostly from […]
[…] and others because they were not thought to be of sufficiently high artistic quality. In the Ensign for March, 1974, the Church Music Department announced that the LDS hymn book is once again to […]