[…] met at a kegger and then got pregnant. Within the first few pages, however, Pam miscarries. The news is particularly devastating to Jacob, who spends the rest of the novel getting knocked around like […]
[…] belief in the Mormon faith would not be held against me, as it normally is in the world of the agnostic academe. In some measure, reading Bushman’s Believing History has helped me to understand […]
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[…] the population had resisted the authority of the standing order–in moving out of the town centers, in breaking from the churches, in seeking wealth over piety. They had not followed the Puritan practice of […]
[…] At night I wrote letters to my congressman, to old flings. I wrote Mr. Goodman, my senior English teacher, asking how classes were going and could he send me some poems to read? From […]
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[…] stock.” 13 Without proper care this soon changed. Christensen and Hutchinson record a report from the Deseret News for 25 September 1879 that read, “…At present the prospect for next year is a gloomy […]
[…] that suffering really has dragged us to a different version of ourselves—a more sanctified version. Instead of breaking us, our bottom floor of suffering can break us open as we strive to “redeem something […]
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