[…] interest.” At this point, Oakes defers his discussion of the final stage of the prophetic vocation in order to present his reflections on “The Followers and Their Quest” and “The Soul of the Prophet.” […]
[…] found that some missionaries had a more favorable impression. They pointed to Hitler’s oratorical skills, commitment to order and efficiency, efforts at political stability, and support for marriage, motherhood, and the family. He even […]
My “interview” with Diana Hirschi was not so much an interview as a wonderfully civilized conversation over dinner at the Singing Cricket in Salt Lake City. I had never met Diana before, but Karen […]
[…] at any anger in the world. Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Times in Which We Live,” Saturday, October 6, 2001, LDS General Conference, retrieved in November 2003 from www.lds.org. Ibid. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Till We […]
[…] including the famous The Kiss, because they were regarded as “inappropriate.” Deseret News, November 14, 1997, Bl, online edition. Henry Warner Bowdoin, “From the Age of Science to an Age of Uncertainty: History and […]
[…] my family and started my 1964 campaign for the congressional seat which I had just vacated in order to run for the Senate. Fortunately for me, Sherman P. Lloyd, who had won that seat […]
[…] the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, has little patience with Frost’s statement (quoted by Hughes, 5- 6) that writing free verse is like “playing tennis with the net down,” especially coming from a […]
[…] a peep in twenty minutes,” Marnie says, pointing a spoon at my baby, Stella. “I’ve got to order myself one of those.” Stella sits propped in the crook of the couch, gumming on a […]
[…] carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. With such study and reflection, I was able to face the poverty-stricken Third World […]
[…] in Nauvoo, was “cut off from the Quorum” (43), and was not initially included in the Holy Order. When he did become a member of the Holy Order, his wife, Sarah, did not join […]