[…] eternal goal—”If you could live after death, what could be better than to be young in a world without time” (p. 226). This chronicle of losses, of foundered ambitions and dissipated dreams, presents a […]
[…] sketches of official pronouncements and individual beliefs about such issues as sin, the devil, death, the spirit world, resurrection, relationship to God, trials and suffering, con tact with non-Mormons, persecutions, and attitudes on public […]
[…] this when people ask me questions aimed, however subtly, at how I caused the violence. The good news is that I began to recover and return to my premarriage “norm” almost immediately. Just before […]
[…] upon them.” Exercising authority upon them: exercising authority over people and upon them is power as the world understands it. “But it shall not be so among you,” Christ goes on to explain to them, […]
[…] that any exposed “differences of opinion” would undermine the “united front” Mormons like to present to the world. In the end, the chapter stayed in the book with majority approval, written as fairly to […]
<i>Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96</i><br>A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
[…] They tell themselves, “People are not mature enough to handle truth” (ibid.). Secretiveness fosters abhorrence of outside news media, whose attention undermines unquestioning loyalty to an abusive organization. “It is not without reason that […]
[…] normal. He glanced at his watch: 5:45. He half expected, no hoped, to see Maggie there, framed in the doorway behind the screen door, waiting to greet him. He had vowed he wouldn’t, but […]
[…] Mormon faith, I recognize in her reminiscence the church that time left behind. Hers are memoirs of Mutual Improvement Association dances, ward talent nights full of shtick, “Rose Night” initiations for young ladies, and […]
[…] about it, I realize that this is what Utah is all about. It’s all about the hidden world—the secret life behind things. I haven’t led a life of crime, but there have been omissions—lots […]