By Michael Patrick O’Brien– On a warm summer afternoon in August 1950, after a long train ride from his hometown in St. Louis to Ogden’s historic Union Station, a young…
Posts published in August 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Parents usually feel a sense of wonder and accomplishment at the landmark first birthday of their child. The feeling is not much different when an author…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The English critic Clive Bell described art and religion as “two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.” This keen insight explains my strong…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The 2003 Jon Krakauer book and the 2022 FX/Hulu mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven point critical fingers at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A most memorable, but embarrassing, chapter of my childhood is that time when I told my mother I hated pre-school nap hour. She sent in a…