Search results for: “A Mormon Image”

  • JEF: Sunday School Lesson 3

    Jim F.

    Lesson 3: Moses 1:27-42, Moses 2-3

  • JEF Sunday School Lesson #2

    Jim F.

    Lesson 2: Abraham 3; Moses 4:1-4

  • The Fellowship of the Plates

    Kaimi Wenger

    I grew up without a clear visual picture of Book of Mormon battles. The stories did not analogize well to the little television that I watched. Arnold Friberg’s illustrations lent my only visual reference points; imagination provided the rest. My children, however, will almost certainly perceive large portions of the Book of Mormon — particularly…

  • RSR: What Hath Bushman Wrought?

    Nate Oman

    Richard Bushman has written a fabulous book, and in so doing he tells us a great deal about the limits and possibilities of Mormon studies.

  • Richard Bushman Responds: 12Q on RSR

    Julie M. Smith

    Richard Bushman was gracious enough to respond to twelve questions about Rough Stone Rolling.

  • Two coalminers

    Wilfried Decoo

    Their story would have made an agreeable Ensign article were it not for that later development that ruined its beauty. Oh, believe me, I was tempted to censor the second part. But it would feel like cheating. Besides, the aftermath carries the morale of the story.

  • Weeping, Singing, Remembering–A November Homily

    Kristine Haglund

    This is the text of a talk I gave in Sacrament Meeting around this time last year. Warning: it’s LONG, and it quite predictably incorporates the John Donne quote I force upon everyone every Thanksgiving.

  • Remain in your homeland

    Wilfried Decoo

    In last General Conference, Elder Uchtdorf reiterated the 1999 counsel of the First Presidency, a counsel that has actually been given since the 1950s.

  • Intelligences: Neo-platonic and Cartesian

    Nate Oman

    “Intelligence” is one of those wonderfully ambiguous words in the scriptures.

  • Gene England and the Securities Act

    Kaimi Wenger

    The name of Eugene England is known among two different (if sometimes overlapping) population groups: Mormon studies scholars, and securities lawyers.

  • A Book Suggestion from George Q. Cannon

    Nate Oman

    I am currently reading a book suggested to me by President George Q. Cannon.

  • The Poetry of Sex, Metaphysics, and Appropriation

    Nate Oman

    Some poets are available for Mormon appropriation and some are only to be envied and enjoyed. John Donne is only to be envied and enjoyed.

  • Two priesthoods

    Wilfried Decoo

    There is a tiny village, on a remote hill in Burundi, Central Africa, committed to my memory as the place where two priesthoods, Catholic and Mormon, joined.

  • A Letter to Emma Ray

    Julie M. Smith

    While David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism is nearly perfect in every way, one thing it doesn’t do is provide an intimate portrait of President McKay. That lacuna is partially filled by Heart Petals: The Personal Correspondence of David Oman McKay to Emma Ray McKay.

  • Book Review: The Parenting Breakthrough

    Julie M. Smith

    You just gotta love any book that has a picture of a seven-year-old boy cleaning a toilet on the cover.

  • An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board

    Nate Oman

    August 11, 2005 To Whom It May Concern: I hope that you will not find an unsolicited letter presumptuous, but I wanted to give you my thoughts on what I see as Dialogue’s problems and some things it could do to improve.

  • History, Objectivity, and Stalin’s Toes

    Nate Oman

    In times past, Mormon intellectualdom has been much exercised over the issue of objectivity and the writing of history. By and large, I think that these debates have focused on the wrong issues. Stalin’s toes help to illustrate one of the reasons why.

  • Endocannibalism in Sacrament Meeting

    Nate Oman

    Cannibalism, it seems to me, is one of the unspoken issues that lurks beneath all Mormon sacrament meetings.

  • Imagining Bathsheba

    Rosalynde Welch

    Recent weeks have seen stimulating (and occasionally heated) discussion of a July Ensign article on the life of Bathsheba W. Smith. The article, meticulously parsed by Justin Butterfield, omits, together with other biographical material, all references to Bathsheba Smith’s sister-wives and any reference to the polygamous families of her husband, George A. Smith. This conspicuous…

  • Who Are You?

    Rosalynde Welch

    Or maybe what I really want to know is: Who am I ? Am I a feminist?

  • Reading in the Sand

    Rosalynde Welch

    The first thing you need to know about what happened is that it’s not about doubt. This is not the story of how I lost my testimony. I’m as committed to the church and as convinced of the reality of the restoration now as I was before what happened on Friday night. This is a…

  • Book Review: Fire in the Bones and Prelude to the Restoration

    Kaimi Wenger

    This review contains good news and bad news. I’ll start with the bad news: Fire in the Bones is pretty disappointing.

  • Book Review: David O. McKay: Beloved Prophet

    Julie M. Smith

    I have mixed feelings about the very presence of Woodger’s David O. McKay: Beloved Prophet. On the one hand, as someone who wants to read biographies of all of the prophets of this dispensation, I’m always happy to see a new addition to the fold. While there are other biographies of President McKay, the pickings…

  • The Patience of Hope and the Labor of Love

    Kristine Haglund

    As a child, I loathed Mother’s Day. This was because I spent most of the other days of the year resenting my mother, and tormenting her in the peculiarly horrid ways that bright children can torment their parents.

  • Symbols of Faith

    Gordon Smith

    President Hinckley’s home teaching message for April is about symbols. It was prompted by that well-worn question: why don’t Mormons use the symbol of the cross?

  • Folklorization

    Wilfried Decoo

    – And, Brother Decoo, could you come in your native dress? It’s this time of the year again. Circus by the aliens. Officially it’s called Cultural Heritage Night, or International Fashion Show, or LDS WorldFest. Mormons love it.

  • Ensign Marginalia

    Rosalynde Welch

    I can’t read without a pencil in my hand, and my greatest vice is pencilling in the margins of library books. In my defense, I can argue that at least I’m not breaking the golden rule: I love reading other people’s marginalia, too. When I was in graduate school, I came to recognize the distinctive…

  • What Does God Smell Like?

    Nate Oman

    I like smells. I sniff my wife when she is not looking. (It really annoys her.) I came home from work late tonight and went in to look at my sleeping son. I bent down and kissed his brow and drank in the wonderful smell of a clean and sleeping little boy. For me smell…

  • Christian Meditation

    Jim F.

    This week’s lesson in my ward’s Priesthood and Relief Society meetings was number four, “The Elements of Worship.” As we talked about reverence, meditation, and communion, I was reminded of a talk President Hinckley gave when, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, on one of many visits to Korea, he spoke to…

  • A Letter to a Righteous Gentile

    Nate Oman

    The following is the (modified) text of a letter that I recently sent to a friend. I have no intention of revealing who he or she is or of posting his or her reply, but in the letter I ask some questions that might be of interest to the readers of this blog. I am…