[…] evidence of having stepped up the wedding dates after coitus. Among the Midwesterners, the tendency was to get married as soon as possible after pregnancy had been diagnosed (about two months after conception); whereas […]
[…] Yet no matter how he is portrayed, his influence is rarely contested. “Few reporters ever go from writing news to being news,” Susan Sheehan wrote in the New York Times Magazine of August 13,1972, […]
[…] When the day arrived, the objector was the only one to attend. Why do people give lip service to Church principles, practices and programs, but by their actions disavow them? Why do people accept […]
[…] reasoning for convention and personal judgment in the place of absolutes. In March 1874, after a year’s service, the school boasted an enrollment of 150 children and a library of 300 books, which Institute […]
[…] from a slightly alienated point of view. There is a kind of centrifugal tendency in most regional writing. It may begin in the peculiarities of Mormon experience, but it reaches out to ward wider […]
[…] In both churches the Apostles and First Presidency are “called” from among the priesthood leadership into full-time service. In the LDS church, these General Authorities enter into lifetime service. In the RLDS Church, the […]
[…] under most of the six years I edited this journal. I felt that if we could just get Mormons to talk and listen to one another we would come to a common understanding of […]
Writing a book of short stories/sketches about a group of missionaries in France is picking a hard door to knock on—missionary work is surrounded with ideals, taboos, and nostalgia—but Gladys Clark Farmer makes […]
[…] Mormon past; in them we saw our Mormon makings. And in Mary Bradford’s look at the personal essay among contemporary Latter-day Saints, there we were: Gene England, Becky Cornwall, Ed Geary, Clif Jolley—we listened […]
General History Allen, Edward J. Second United Order Among the Mormons. New York: AMS Press, 1967. $12.50 Reprint of 1936 edition. Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints: Or an Expose of Joe Smith…