Gospel by the Month: Ensign
April 25, 2018[…] Pratt in London, with the promise that it would “stand aloof from the common political and commercial news of the day,” it had covered the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. With the demise […]
[…] Pratt in London, with the promise that it would “stand aloof from the common political and commercial news of the day,” it had covered the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. With the demise […]
[…] generation, the first generation formed by the twentieth century. Its members grew up when regional isolation was breaking down and rural Mormondom was experiencing widespread depopulation. Consequently it is not surprising that many of […]
[…] it does not touch Sister Durant’s drunken husband. As the sisters ride away, they hear shouting and breaking glass behind them. More than joy, that shared grief is the bond. The other situations ring […]
[…] in the meanings of the words “cyclical,” “revolution,” “catastrophism” and “creationism” were altogether ignored, however, in the English edition of his seminal Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1812) translated by the Scottish […]
[…] keep diaries; we are treated to snatches of personal diaries in sacrament meeting, we are urged to share our diaries in Relief Society, and our children are instructed in the rules and regulations of […]
[…] The book gives us much, but it also disappoints a little. The editor-author, a BYU professor of English, is no stranger to Dialogue readers (see Summer 1980 issue). James H. Hart, born 1825, was […]
[…] perseverance we should overcome many of the minor obstacles that presented themselves before us, and contribute our share in promoting the great cause for which this periodical was established. . . . Our most […]
[…] 1906, General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News ), p. 19, here after cited as Conference Reports. “Priesthood Quorum’s Table,” Improvement Era 17 (May […]
[…] of religion and the history of philosophy. McMurrin treats ideas not merely as landmarks in a particular world view but as entities that have a life of their own. The genius of his particular […]
[…] not as advocating either acceptance or rejection of Mormon theology but as using it to envision the world and one possible curve that human thought, feeling, and action may trace in the world. To […]