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Enticing The Sacred With Words, John Bennion
Enticing The Sacred With Words, John Bennion
BYU Studies Quarterly
Evoking the sacred with words "is like trying to breathe joy as if it is air or to catch the wind in a butterfly net." In an effort to help the students in his writing classes capture the sacred with words, John Bennion of the BYU English faculty employs unusual methods, taking his students out of the classroom and into the wild, where they confront nature and themselves face to face. Rather than requiring writing that preaches, Bennion encourages expressive or exploratory essaying. His own essay depicts some of the successes his students have experienced.
Andrew Jenson's Illustrated Journey To Iceland, The Land Of Fire And Ice, August 1911, Fred E. Woods
Andrew Jenson's Illustrated Journey To Iceland, The Land Of Fire And Ice, August 1911, Fred E. Woods
BYU Studies Quarterly
In 1911, Andrew Jenson was serving one of his ten missions, this time as mission president of the Danish-Norwegian Mission. Headquarters were in Copenhagen, where he had been presiding since February 1909. Jenson was familiar with Scandinavia, having been born and raised in Denmark until age sixteen (1866), when he immigrated to Utah.
On The Trail Of The Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration, G. Wesley Johnson, Marian Ashby Johnson
On The Trail Of The Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration, G. Wesley Johnson, Marian Ashby Johnson
BYU Studies Quarterly
This article gives an overview of a major history research project that is now coming to a close after twenty years of activity. It is the Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project, sponsored by the Marriott School of Management. Its focus has been to study the great urban outmigration of the twentieth century, as members of the Latter-day Saint community moved from traditional Mormon lands to all four corners of the United States in search of employment and education. The project has compiled in-depth case studies of individuals and families who migrated to twenty “target cities” across the nation (table 1). …
"I Long To Breathe The Mountain Air Of Zion's Peaceful Home": Agnes O'Neal's Letter To Brigham Young From War-Torn Virginia, Fred E. Woods
"I Long To Breathe The Mountain Air Of Zion's Peaceful Home": Agnes O'Neal's Letter To Brigham Young From War-Torn Virginia, Fred E. Woods
BYU Studies Quarterly
As the Civil War raged in America, thousands of Latter-day Saints hazarded the trip west through this war-torn land. For a variety of reasons, however, some Saints did not reach their desired haven in the Salt Lake Valley, which lay safely within the borders of Utah Territory. One was a Scottish sister named Agnes, who, at age thirty, embarked from her native town of Paisley. Accompanied by her husband, Hugh Campbell, and their three sons, Agnes crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1845, bound for Zion.
Tomizo And Tokujiro: The First Japanese Mormons, Shinji Takagi
Tomizo And Tokujiro: The First Japanese Mormons, Shinji Takagi
BYU Studies Quarterly
In August 1901, Heber J. Grant and his companions arrived in Japan to open the first permanent mission in Asia and begin their difficult proselyting labors among the Japanese. It took them almost seven long months to claim the first fruit of their labors. On March 8, 1902, on the shore of Omori in Tokyo Bay, Hajime Nakazawa, a professed Shinto priest, was baptized, confirmed, and ordained an elder. This event was symbolic indeed. For one thing, Nakazawa was presumably affiliated with a religious sect whose roots went back to the ancient indigenous religion of Japan. For another, more interestingly, …
Two Massachusetts Forty-Niner Perspectives On The Mormon Landscape, July-August 1849, Brian D. Reeves
Two Massachusetts Forty-Niner Perspectives On The Mormon Landscape, July-August 1849, Brian D. Reeves
BYU Studies Quarterly
The year 1999 marks the sesquicentennial of the gold rush of 1849. Two forty-niners passing through Salt Lake City recorded their impressions of the Latter-day Saints and the first of the settlers' annual 24th of July celebrations.
Dancing The Buckles Off Their Shoes In Pioneer Utah, Larry V. Shumway
Dancing The Buckles Off Their Shoes In Pioneer Utah, Larry V. Shumway
BYU Studies Quarterly
Endorsed by Mormon leaders as a healthy and uplifting activity, dancing served the important functions of revitalizing the pioneers' spirits and nurturing their sense of community.
John C. Calhoun, Jr., Meets The Prophet Joseph Smith Shortly Before The Departure For Carthage, Brian Q. Cannon
John C. Calhoun, Jr., Meets The Prophet Joseph Smith Shortly Before The Departure For Carthage, Brian Q. Cannon
BYU Studies Quarterly
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Conflict In The Countryside: The Mormon Settlement At Macedonia, Illinois, Susan Sessions Rugh
Conflict In The Countryside: The Mormon Settlement At Macedonia, Illinois, Susan Sessions Rugh
BYU Studies Quarterly
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Nauvoo Observed, William Mulder
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Robert Lang Campbell: "A Wise Scribe In Israel" And Schoolman To The Saints, Frederick S. Buchanan
Robert Lang Campbell: "A Wise Scribe In Israel" And Schoolman To The Saints, Frederick S. Buchanan
BYU Studies Quarterly
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