[…] greatest service when you require the sinner to suffer.” For their part, confessing missionaries were required, in order to repent fully and to remain on their missions, to write to their parents, bishops or […]
[…] in vogue among the modern American artists, and they need to be viewed from considerable distance in order to get their splendid effect. . . . The strong note of color in Miss Kohlhepp’s […]
[…] we decided that we would have to be pretty quiet on matters of race and politics in order to survive in the Church in Texas. Three days later we met Otto and Wanda Puempel, […]
A Mormon is once again in the national spotlight, this time it’s Joanna Brooks who works to demystify Mormons on “On Being” with host Krista Tippett.
[…] because of life-long national culture experiences, would undoubtedly experience cultural conflict as members of the Church. In order to examine some of these cultural differences, I asked some French Latter-day Saint leaders to complete […]
In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 as […]
[…] under Hitler. “We of course wonder at home just how the people here feel about the new order of things,” he wrote to Mary and her husband on 12 July 1937. He could detect […]
[…] sin, on grace as opposed to works, and on the total dependence of humankind on God. In order to develop these ideas, White borrows the “neo-orthodoxy” label from Protestantism and attempts to compare this […]
[…] Finally, after his work was accepted by his current publisher, Tullis had to revise his manuscript in order to communicate with a general, not only a Latter-day Saint, audience. More important, Mormons in Mexico […]
[…] impulses. Many feared that any relaxation of sexual standards would lead to a complete breakdown of civilized order. And if polygamy liberated man’s base sexual drive from the normal restraints of civilization, he would […]