Of Curious Workmanship: Musings on Things Mormon -- Signature Books

Of Curious Workmanship
Musings on Things Mormon
Edgar C. Snow, Jr.
Paperback. 132 Pages. / 1-56085-136-8 / ~~$14.95~~ $7.00

Ed Snow mixes nostalgia and humor equally in his musings about things Mormon. For instance, in singing "Tit-Willow" as a youth (remember the old Recreational Songs book?), the resulting giggles are vivid in his mind.

Or, as another example, the unusual fulfillment of the "gift of tongues" in the Swiss mission. That happened when Ed and his companion received a local beef tongue delicacy from a grateful convert. Poker faces all around.

The author continues to find moments of guilty pleasure in his current Sunday school class, every time an Alexander Pope saying is attributed to President David O. McKay, or when "Zeezrom" was defined as meaning "dirty, stinking lawyer" in Egyptian. (Actually, Ed contributed that nugget.)

Ah, it's good being Mormon! Ed proclaims. There is great comfort in the rhythms of church life. And, as Ed believes, there MUST be a higher purpose to all of this!

Edgar C. Snow Jr. is a former part-time LDS Institute of Religion instructor. He holds degrees from Brigham Young University, the University of Tennessee, and Boston University, and for a time attended St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland. He is the former president of the Baltimore Housing Ministry; he is currently a partner in an Atlanta law firm. He has published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, and elsewhere. He and his wife have three children.