A Mighty Change of Heart
April 22, 2018[…] when in comes Claude with hay in his hair and manure on his shoes (he heard the news while milking), and he says he’s just come to say goodbye and gosh, honey, I’m going […]
[…] when in comes Claude with hay in his hair and manure on his shoes (he heard the news while milking), and he says he’s just come to say goodbye and gosh, honey, I’m going […]
[…] 1930, warned bishops that young men using tobacco were not to be called on missions. Ruth May Fox, President of the YWMIA, asked Mormon girls to abstain from smoking and drinking in order to […]
[…] center for their Monday meeting. Sonia Johnson’s excommunication hit the media that weekend. By Mon day the news was everywhere, including our meeting. The rooms were over flowing with three times the expected number […]
[…] . . and dwell in righteousness with men on earth a thousand years” (D&C 29:11) for “I am in your midst and ye cannot see me” (D&C 38:7). The revelation of Baha’u’llah has given […]
[…] 1906, General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News ), p. 19, here after cited as Conference Reports. “Priesthood Quorum’s Table,” Improvement Era 17 (May […]
[…] make a start toward acknowledging women’s roles in the settling of Zion. Certainly, getting bits of their stories between book covers does something towards greater recognition for our Mormon foremothers. But the significant question […]
[…] is a compelling tribute to the “everyday women of history,” as the jacket copy puts it. “Lively stories of courtship, love, inventiveness, humor, skulduggery, passion” are told in the words of eleven Western women who […]
[…] and sincere man when he writes: “After years of working with their lives and their words, I am deeply convinced that their printed testimonies must be taken at face value” (p. xii). But I don’t […]
[…] death. But it might be asked upon what principle? I will answer, on the principle that I am dealt justly by in the church. The next morning after our meeting I notice an article […]
[…] in the department. I don’t remember ever consciously saying to myself, “I’m going to make sure I am not provincial.” But in retrospect I can see that my fear helped dictate many of my […]