Author Meets Critics: A Rascal By Nature, A Christian By Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography Join with a panel of friends and fellow writers for a lively exchange about Levi S. Peterson’s just-released autobiography, A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning. From the book’s first paragraph: “Although I consider myself a religious person, I know …
Speaker: Bruce W. Jorgensen
Frank Windham at Forty: Celebration of Levi Peterson’s ‘The Backslider’
Retracing his spiritual odyssey, Jack Newell weaves a colorful tapestry that includes a religiously diverse extended family, his Methodist upbringing in rural Ohio, and baptism into the Mormon Church when he was twenty-three years old, in the era of David O. McKay’s leadership and High B. Brown’s liberal influence. Proceeding through a series of inspiring …