[…] his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, be fore the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms […]
[…] stake center was ninety miles from the town where I lived, but we made the hour-and-a-half drive for conferences and firesides, or in my terrifying case, stake dances for teenagers fourteen to eighteen. I […]
The evening be fore Jim Wilson’s family moved, he and Bob Olding rode their bikes down to the Provo River to swim one more time. The last five boys were just leaving the hole, […]
[…] crossing the plains, a man by the name of William McCary, who had Native American and African American ancestry, caused a lot of grief and trouble for both saints and the leaders of the Church.
My apologia—if one is needed— for this essay may be presented and done with at once. I have been aware, as a member of the Church, of its great resources as a moral and […]
[…] a while and then go to school a while. He was quite willing that they should work for one r more years and then they would perhaps be willing to go to school and […]
[…] and scientific topics. Influential during his own lifetime, he wielded even more influence after his death. Writing for the Church’s Centennial in 1930, John Henry Evans observed: “In the first cen tury of ‘Mormonism’ […]
[…] Prison after pleading guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of theft by deception be fore third District Judge Kenneth Rigtrup. The judge sentenced Hofmann to a single five-year-to-life term and three […]
[…] being discovered on the American continents? Have you ever been curious to know who some of the prehistoric forefathers of the American Indian were? In the Book of Mormon you’ll find answers to these questions, […]
[…] times causes us to read back into history certain presentisms which were nonexistent when the incident occurred. For all that follows I’ll assume full responsibility. I’ve endeavored to check dates, events, people, and my […]