[…] learning to obey all the rules and not always knowing why. This is especially hard in a world where everything you do usually has to have a reason.” Other, less prevalent stresses included the […]
[…] my chin, make-up from church still in place, trying to avert a headache by shutting out the world. Sundays became dreadful reminders of what I had lost. Sometimes my very patient and very believing […]
[…] prepared by Richard L. Evans, A Century of Mor monism in Great Britain (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1937), repeats the Kimball account. So does the sesquicentennial history by V. Ben Bloxham, James […]
[…] Jensen {[email protected]} writes, edits, and mothers five children, often simultaneously. For five years, Emily covered the online world of Mormonism for the Deseret News and currently webedits Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She […]
[…] to usher in the new millennium and disabuse them of fundamentalist myths about the end of the world. Yet he continues to live in Colorado City, wearing the fundamentalist undergarment even in summer heat: […]
[…] and value learning, but church leaders have predicted that church members would surpass the rest of the world in their scholarly and artistic accomplishments. President John Taylor exclaimed, You will see the day that […]
[…] most fundamental kind of reality, as opposed to the “shadows” that humankind dealt with in the temporal world. Plato implied that the soul existed before entering the body and that, if it properly purified […]
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[…] for a general audience, titled American Revelation: The Making of the Mormons to be published by Random House in time for the Iowa caucuses. The book is making news even in advance of its publication.
[…] at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of many books and articles on early American history and women’s history and is now completing her first book-length work in Mormon history, “A […]