[…] neither more nor less than rule of action founded in justice for the proper regulation of the human family in their social intercourse, and written with the utmost plainness.” They contrasted this “law” with […]
[…] “I hope someday I can talk with God as this man does.” Of course, all men are human, and I learned later in life that even the General Authorities have faults and failings. President […]
[…] 1984 Utah murders of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her daughter, Erica, and the trials of her brothers -in–law Ron and Dan Lafferty as a framework, Krakauer ranges across many topics in twenty–six chapters, including […]
[…] of Fifty, their projected inclusion in the “Government of God” was absolutely essential, for it allowed the Mormons to insist that at least theoretically they observed the sacred American doctrine of separation of church […]
Did I do the right thing? Maisie Clay is forty -three years old and here she is, sitting on a tombstone in a cemetery in the middle of the night. She is here because […]
[…] big thing, and don’t think my mind’s in the wrong place for saying so. I’m young. Twenty -three. Heading toward my prime. It’s not like that mangled patch of gray matter took away the […]
[…] Modern red brick? Guessing at the architectural style. Colonial? Schoolhouse? Barnyard? Post World War II Wurlitzer? Neo -Ramada Inn? Indescribable Mormon eclectic? Scanning the line of the town as we neared for a glimpse […]
[…] dramatize a Book of Mormon episode is “A Day, a Night, and a Day,” presented October 19 -30, 1967, by the Brigham Young University Theatre under the able direction of Charles W. Whitman. “A […]
[…] Mae Ferguson?” The smile was like lights turned on in a dark room. “They’re getting so high -hat they won’t do windows or floors or anything.” What does one do for $1.25 an hour […]
[…] Mormonism: “On the ‘Hill of Cumorah’ near Palmyra, New York, began the most controversial period in American religious communal living, now commonly called Mormonism.” “The origin of the Mormon Church appears to have been […]