The materials reviewed in this bibliography are books—new and reprint—published since the last book list appeared in the Autumn/Winter 1973 issue of Dialogue. This is a selected listing excluding some of the publications well […]
My grandfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there […]
Parley P. Pratt once defined “union of the sexes” as “ mutual comfort and assistance in this world of toil and sorrow.” In our day President Spencer W. Kimball has affirmed that an important […]
[…] of 1871, over one hundred dissenting and Gentile women organized themselves at the Institute into a Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Society, with the anti-Mormon crusader, Fanny Stenhouse, as president. The Society dedicated itself to securing […]
[…] religious magazines are published at all. And yet there are Dialogue and Exponent II and Sunstone and newsletters and journals of almost a dozen Mormon associations. Now there is the New Messenger & Advocate. […]
[…] he remembers an act of childish insensitivity that can never be undone: “Unwelcome guest in that memory world of gumdrops and candy canes, it sneaks along the edges of the mind, demanding it be […]
[…] “Pray, take it away. It has no personality.” I cannot imagine how the finest cook in the world could endow tapioca pudding with personality. But I do know how a scholar can endow a […]
My earliest memory of Retty Mott is of hurry ing past her house as I walked home from Primary. I hurried past because my cousins had told me that she chased people. Once she […]
[…] Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy, (Salt Lake City: The General Board of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association, 1920) p. 24. Improvement Era, 5:624 (June 1902). Lee Smith, “Herbal Remedies: God’s Medicine,” […]
[…] Where does it come from? From the parts of us that seem unacceptable in the orderly, adult world. Rampant impulses of sexuality, aggression and messiness must be tamed and suppressed. Feelings that arise in […]