The Mourning After
April 11, 2018[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 27.3 (1994): 289–298</i><br>Over time Joseph Smith changed his stance on freemasonary, which led to him being included as part of the group. Some of the common aspects of freemasonry introduced into the endowment ceremony.
[…] even in my silent personal musings. Their ideal, as it unfolded in subsequent conversations, was a theocratic world made safe and sure not only by the absence of dissenting voices, but also by the […]
[…] members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but around the world. Such efforts have hardly added up to an all-out “war,” but there has certainly been a […]
[…] not supposed to exist. That notion, as applied to the church Correlation program, suggests some intriguing possibilities. Today’s centralized church, situated in the American Intermountain West, works fastidiously to assure that the gospel message […]
[…] celebrated piece as West’s is unknown. Unfortunately, any further newspaper coverage of the exhibition was preempted by news of the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press and the subsequent murders of Joseph and Hyrum […]
[…] this assignment, child? I mean, Sarah the first has near half a billion real children populating the world she and Abraham made together, with well over a billion spirit kids just waiting to go. […]
[…] of despair. And what can he use to answer a prayer like that? What good is a world full of grace if you don’t share in that grace? When I was certain that God […]