[…] restoration is reflected artistically on the book’s jacket, which features a gold-embossed pattern in a curiously Asian de sign with a trumpet-blowing angel Moroni placed at the center. At a hefty 631 pages, the […]
[…] California but either for survival or extinction. This was not just another march westward “across the wide Missouri” in fulfillment of America’s Manifest Destiny; rather, it was a destiny in motion yet to be […]
[…] of Mormon Doctrine, on which the string of letters GreatandAbominable could clearly be made out. Jesus Gonzales de Sangre de Christo arrived in the Salt Lake valley at the age of 12, a coattail […]
[…] for a panel discussion at the second Counterpoint Conference for Mormon Women in 1994 in Salt Lake City. The eight years since then have changed the relative position of women in our society, but […]
[…] in Joseph’s psyche or religious unconscious, and they chronicle a history of this hemisphere, not a heavenly city to come” (42). Score one for Givens. One of the most curious aspects of the Book […]
[…] 65. Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2d ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978), 4:461. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d ed. (Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1979), […]
The year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As […]
[…] by Dialogue Associate Editor Keith Norman on 11 August 2001 at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. K.N.: It’s a privilege to be here today to talk with Duane Jeffery. As we were […]
[…] one constant support has been the life of the mind. For years I walked in a cul- de-sac by trying to compartmentalize science and religion; every turning brought me back to the original problem. […]
[…] him and the President, who was Jack to my Dad. The two of them met in Carson City in the early sixties. Senator Kennedy then. Dad and Jack sat under a weeping willow tree […]