The Mormon Woman as Writer
April 14, 2018Once while I was wandering through my life, I had a need to say something. I’m not sure where this something came from, but opinions and observations grew on the interior walls of my mind…
Once while I was wandering through my life, I had a need to say something. I’m not sure where this something came from, but opinions and observations grew on the interior walls of my mind…
[…] widely today. Nor is the role of physical touching excluded from modern healing. In a recent Deseret News article, physician Lynn Fraley stated, in language borrowed from Alvin Tobler’s Future Shock: “The more the […]
[…] the women —like getting donuts at Winchell’s before priesthood meeting on Sunday mornings, which Mom said was breaking the Sabbath. Dad wanted us on his side. Mom knew in her heart that excluding her […]
[…] final decision, and he admitted in diary entries on 15 and 20 December that the suspense was breaking him up. Seeking a respite from both solitude and uncertainty, he left Chattanooga on 23 December […]
[…] territory. And no sin, so far as I have seen, quite keeps up with gambling’s propensity for breaking out at unexpected times and places. Sex and drunkenness, to name two other favorite pitfalls, are […]
[…] Bible, but it ignores the centuries required for the Old and New Testaments to achieve canonical status. Breaking with tradition of the 1850s and 1860s, the contemporary church canonizes within days, and recently without […]
In 1879 a young Mormon missionary named Rudger Clawson watched as an anti-Mormon mob in Georgia killed his companion. Through bluff and bravado Clawson survived the assault and brought his companion’s body back to church…
[…] his party’s nomination for Congress, and was elected in 1962 as a member of Utah’s congressional delegation. Breaking ranks doomed my grandfather’s leadership role in Utah Republican politics. He accepted that, affirmed that the […]
[…] felt hopeful and fearful, stimulated and depressed, high and low, in rapidly alternating cycles, depending upon the news from a part of the world that scarcely occupied a moment’s attention before last year. Many […]
[…] by that I am not involved in counseling with those who have broken or who are contemplating breaking the law of chastity, encouraging new members of the ward in initial interviews to be forthcoming […]