[…] late 1920s who came of age during the Great Depression and endured the anxieties and sacrifices of World War II. Like my mother, moreover, Fawn was a caring, empathic individual who considered the welfare […]
[…] attempt at drawing Grandfather’s support. His demeanor, I noted with relief, remained calm as he perused the headlines of the Los Angeles Examiner. I then turned to Grandpa, taking hope from the grin he […]
[…] deliberately confuse the ordination date.” See also Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1899), xxviii (which also gives the correct Nov. 22,1855 date). For Joseph Angell (1834-1875) and Brigham […]
[…] the voices said, and Adam followed them. From the ledge he would be able to see the world as God did—from above, from a distance. He followed the course of the stream, up the […]
[…] Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, when the prophet said: He believed that among all the Churches in the world the Methodist was the nearest right, and that, as far as they went, they were right. […]
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[…] his daughter’s sudden death, Red became depressed and lost weight. After having been socked again with the news of his brother’s death, he slumped and sank into another funk. Sometimes he sat in reverie […]
[…] parents: “Father, Mother, may I meet you / In your royal courts on high?” and “With your mutual approbation / Let me come and dwell with you.” This “key” resolves the speaker’s crisis of […]
[…] Mattie was a Boston transplant. Don’t ask me how he got out to our side of the world, but he did. See, I’d never met any driver’s ed teachers from Boston, anyone from Boston, […]
[…] their good works, their contradictions and ironies somehow suggested that politics was what we had in a world from which God had withdrawn. In Brodie’s biography, when Joseph broke the law for a higher […]