A Celebration of Sisterhood
April 17, 2018[…] in those roles, but mostly because I stuck it out through school and have done a little writing over the years. While I would encourage education for any woman, I feel guilty when it […]
[…] in those roles, but mostly because I stuck it out through school and have done a little writing over the years. While I would encourage education for any woman, I feel guilty when it […]
[…] the early morning lineup of regulars, the several dozen other residents of that forlorn territory, hoping to get in on the plasma donors program. Men warmed chilled bodies by sitting on open heating grates […]
[…] to express their feelings. Following the farewell testimony meeting of my first district of missionaries, I remember writing in a diary that no longer exists how I wished every member of the Church could […]
[…] be the most dramatic moments. She was a political activist on the conservative end of the spectrum, writing strongly worded letters to her political representatives on water rights, schools, Indian rights, grazing rights, and […]
[…] we set aside our ascending moral standards to obey a God to whom rigid obedience, in the service of cruelty, is said to be preeminent over every moral objection? Plainly, we need to examine […]
[…] these last days” (D&C 64:34; italics added). Mystical devotion differs from discipline by focusing attention on rendering service to others through divine activity and good works rather than upon the individual and his or […]
[…] few years ago); the Joseph Smith letter to Josiah Stowell (thought to have been the earliest known writing of Joseph Smith); a Betsy Ross letter; and the Joseph Smith to Jonathan Dunham letter (thought […]
[…] rest of the meetings. Later, at home, I couldn’t summon the energy to pray for strength. Perhaps writing a letter to President that day was a prayer, in my mind. At least I knew […]
The lurid title notwithstanding, this little book is not a sequel to Indiana Jones, but rather an expose of damning parallels between Mormonism, magic, and Masonry. The authors (most of the story is Schnoebelen’s, with…
[…] he suggests, encourages competition, which in turn stimulates efficient production, which increases the availability of goods and services, which raises most people’s standard of living, which makes America great (Benson 1974, 305-15). We do […]