Family Scriptures
April 17, 2018[…] told these stories. My favorite spot in my grandparents’ brick bungalow on Fifth East in Salt Lake City was a worn leather hassock by Grandpa’s wing chair. Into his nineties, Grandpa tuned in to […]
[…] told these stories. My favorite spot in my grandparents’ brick bungalow on Fifth East in Salt Lake City was a worn leather hassock by Grandpa’s wing chair. Into his nineties, Grandpa tuned in to […]
[…] about a dozen years ago, a genuine grass-roots movement which exists without specific direction from Salt Lake City and without an instruction manual. The first I ever heard of was organized by Charlotte Johnston, […]
Recently I finished my first book, a brief journey on the road to self- definition. I called it Leaving Home because my life has been a series of comings and goings to and from […]
[…] words, or of Frankenstein’s monster, or of any one of a hundred science-fiction fantasies. The destructive capa city and the danger are growing not just arithmetically but exponentially, like the energy of the bomb […]
[…] development throughout history of broader systems of government—from the family and clan, to the tribe, to the city-state, to principalities, to kingdoms, and recently to the modern nation-state has made a one world system […]
[…] of Moroni, the Book of Mormon translation, the organization of the Church, the subsequent moves to Kirtland, Missouri, Nauvoo, and the Carthage jail murders. The remaining chapters focus on the move west, colonization, the […]
[…] from time to time. It’s the only way we can stay healthy. If we lose the capa city to do this for ourselves, then only outsiders will be left to do it. But we […]
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 […]
[…] Stegner’s nostalgic, evocative essay, “Hometown Revisited” (1958). In it, he describes his return to the Salt Lake City of his youth, remembers fondly and with evident affection the streets, houses, canyons, and mountains he […]
[…] that the novel received the Association for Mormon Letters’ Best Novel Award for 1986. It is in deed a memorable first novel which more than lives up to the expectations of those who had […]