[…] this assignment. In truth, most of the men were happy to go since digging gold was back- breaking work, and they had also experienced much sickness in recent months. “The turn of things was […]
[…] even when functioning within a patriarchal tradition. She has a bachelor’s in history and a master’s in English, both from Brigham Young University. Her writing has appeared in Exponent II, Dialogue: A Journal of […]
[…] even when functioning within a patriarchal tradition. She has a bachelor’s in history and a master’s in English, both from Brigham Young University. Her writing has appeared in Exponent II, Dialogue: A Journal of […]
Since my conversion to the Church almost fourteen years ago, I have struggled on various levels to come to terms with the atonement of Jesus Christ. At times, while young deacons passed gleaming trays among…
David Riesman, in his landmark study of American higher education entitled The Academic Revolution (1969), was fascinated by BYU and insightfully observes: “Despite academic upgrading, Brigham Young has not lost its sectarian character nor even…
[…] Kirtland, and then gave directions for seating of the priesthood quorums and congregation for the assembly (Deseret News, 8 Oct. 1877, Minutes of the General Conference, p. 2). This assembly would offer a public […]
[…] worn leather hassock by Grandpa’s wing chair. Into his nineties, Grandpa tuned in to every regularly scheduled news program during the day, ear cupped close to the speaker, the other hand on the dial […]
[…] was off-road Missouri, small-town Utah, through and through. Maggie was the past. Still, I replay that evening news in my mind—the bright burning of half a-million gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen flaming in […]
[…] references in the Harris letter, which some Mormons are claiming is a forgery.” The source for the news article was none other than Mark Hofmann, publicly bolstering his earlier forgeries from behind the scenes. […]
[…] their suggestion serious thought. Lavina: Then what? Linda: Fred Esplin and Randy Mackey, co-chairs of the editor search committee, came by one Sunday afternoon early in 1982 and told us we had been chosen! […]