A woman unhappily married to a polygamist. A girl trapped in Utah, separated from her father, likely soon to be sealed to a hoary elder. A gentile-accompanied flight to safety.
[…] in the Church and how it didn’t provide for her as she aged and developed as a human being. Her disassociation from the Church is also a recognition of the labor, pain, and dissonance […]
From the minute I saw the title, I wanted to like this book. And when I got the book in my hands and saw the cover art, my 1960s nostalgia and Spidey-senses kicked into high…
[…] triumphant or destroyed. No particular values are being promoted, and none roundly condemned. Rather, readers are presented human beings trying to make their way through a complex and shifting world with no iron rod […]
[…] factors. Given this non-Mormon assumption concerning sectarianism and given the much older assumption that Mormon revelation was human in origin, the non-Mormon historian will not generate much enthusiasm for the questions posed by Bushman. […]
[…] God could be conceived as a valid alternative for preserving order while still allowing scope to the human yearning for liberty and personal power. In another vein, the miseries of our overgrown cities and […]
[…] gears: from realistic social comedy to direct, generalized satire. The average Mormon is simply not a “rational human being.” Mormons think of people only as “meanings”; they “hang the moral price tag on every […]
In the spring of 1970, with the biennial world conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints approaching, an acute polarization of theological positions and emotional sets seemed to have occurred in the movement over the identity, the character, and the mission of the (RLDS) church.
[…] Japanese Man’s Search For Happiness for Expo ’70). So this is a book of people and exuberant human interest (like Gilbert W. Scharff’s new Mormonism in Germany). It seeks a new relevance for what […]
[…] the screen; the other felt edified by what D. H. Lawrence had to say about love and human relationships. Every time I sit down to write my movie 1$, I try to remember that […]