[…] 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 […]
[…] hard-of-hearing and diminutive middle-aged Scotsman left a mark in both Mormon and Canadian history. His proclivity for writing letters defending the Latter-day Saints did not influence people in the direction he intended. As the […]
[…] the mode of the Book of Mormon, which he holds up as the “perfect pattern for the writing of our story” (p. 2)? Both Millet (pp. 188-89) and Monte Nyman and Charles Tate (p. […]
[…] to be the sorcerer, to hold power that changes women into something else. My best piece of writing so far, I believe (and more objective critics have agreed), is a personal essay called “Easter […]