[…] Ally said, “And he gave it all up to work in a factory fourteen hours a day breaking up steel, seven days a week, giving his wages to Grandpa so there’d be firewood come […]
[…] worked with them—the clumsy patching, gluing, and sketching came later.” B. H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City; Deseret News Press, 1948), vol. II, p. 236.
[…] you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand.” By inspired strategem—the confusion caused by smashing lamps and breaking pitchers—rather than by Israelite superiority in armaments or animals of war, or numbers of fighting men, […]
[…] basis of the slave trade, first with the Arabs, then with the Portuguese, and finally with the English. Racial charter myths played a significant role in our foreign relations. Many U.S. military ventures were […]
[…] was coming for the purpose of massacring us, and in a short time after we got the news, we saw them coming over the hills and coming down onto what was called Goose Creek. […]
[…] Palmyra, the Age of Reason was a documented topic of conversation in the village. For example, a newspaper column on “The Effects of Infidelity” was printed in the Palmyra Register in 1820, when Joseph […]
[…] hope that my comments may further efforts to understand and appreciate the power of myth in our shared religious tradition. Before looking at the Joseph Smith story and Mormonism as Hero myths, it is […]
[…] and by thy bosom shall partake/The secrets of my heart,” he never keeps that promise. Had he shared his deepest self with his other half, his wife, and been, advised by her better perspective, […]
[…] mirror (captoptromancy) was employed. K. Illness Illness was thought to be caused in some cases by the breaking of taboos. Confession of sin was believed to bring about a cure of illness. L. Snake […]
[…] trying to smile, to laugh; trying to mimic the Pied Piper and convert embarrassment into humor. But breaking down, hollering at them: “Get the hell out! Get the hell out of here! All of […]