Easter Weekend
April 16, 2018[…] with a bubble, we each took our limit of three trout over five pounds and, acknowledging the mutual agreement of those fishing on this private lake, put the many others we caught back. Two […]
[…] with a bubble, we each took our limit of three trout over five pounds and, acknowledging the mutual agreement of those fishing on this private lake, put the many others we caught back. Two […]
[…] the summer that year my parents decided to expose our backward southern Utah family to the real world. We went to Disneyland. Almost as an afterthought, my mother called her wayward father in Burbank […]
[…] that she got because she was tall and could be seen across the large dining hall—when a mutual friend introduced her to Bernard. He was immediately attracted to Fawn, who was not only very […]
[…] 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 […]