Since adolescence, I have squirreled away poems in drawers, files, journals, sometimes even publishing some. Susan Elizabeth Howe and Robert Rees read and criticized my entire oeuvre and helped me choose those poems worthy of inclusion in a published collection. Then I took the poems to Anam Cara, Sue Booth Forbes paradisiacal writers and artists …
Speaker: Mary Lythgoe Bradford
Still Among the Mormons: The Legacy of William Mulder
Still Among the Mormons: The Legacy of William Mulder Karen Rosenbaum, Phyllis Barber, Fred Buchanan, Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Emma Lou Thayne
Poets and the Prophets
While it may be true, as he said of himself, that no one knew Joseph Smith’s history, poets from the early days of the Restoration have attempted to capture the Prophet through the power of poetic language. This session consists of readings of poets from W. W. Phelps and Eliza R. Snow to modern Mormons …
Why We Stay
This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the face of many difficult challenges to traditional faith. How have these members wrestled with their faith and yet emerged more determined than ever to be a part of the Latter-day Saint community? J. Frederick …
A Pope Story: How One Person Brought Down The Berlin Wall
On 13 May 1981, my father, Eugene England, was standing directly in front of the Pope when the Pope was shot. Moved by the powerful example John Paul II was to the Polish people, Dad chose to do something to support the nonviolent resistance of the Solidarity movement in Poland. This paper chronicles this event, …
Three Mormon Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century: Reflections on Sterling McMurrin, Lowell Bennion and Hugh Nibley
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Author Meets Critics. Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
A LAST LOOK AT LOWELL’S LEGACY
A LAST LOOK AT LOWELL’S LEGACY Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Lowell
MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD: TEACHER, EDITOR, AUTHOR
MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD: TEACHER, EDITOR, AUTHOR Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Shirley Paxman