[…] belief in the Mormon faith would not be held against me, as it normally is in the world of the agnostic academe. In some measure, reading Bushman’s Believing History has helped me to understand […]
[…] says, ‘Man, everybody at BYU’s a hypocrite. They think they’re more righteous than the rest of the world. They sit there and read and memorize these obscure Church doctrines and ignore what’s really going […]
[…] sound. I felt completely alone. Then I thought, “I wonder when I’ll come up again?” and the world exploded around me. I was back with water in my eyes and the jumpsuit clinging to […]
[…] from Rabbi Isaac Luria in which God’s divinity is shattered into pieces at the beginning of the world. I told our boys that our job as human beings is to gather the pieces of […]
[…] the dressing of the body. I found that I was crying as I read, for all the world as if I had not been the one to shepherd the article through its several stages […]
[…] mother had been divorced for some time. When I was ten, my father returned from the Second World War, taught me the gospel, and then baptized me in the Mesa Temple. Thus, there were […]
[…] reckless efforts to win with Maggy, our mustang/Morgan mare. I still remember his crooked grin, his voice breaking. I had never noticed him so sloppy. Most of the time he was as closed as […]
October 1954. I am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play […]
[…] abridgment, Townsend emphasizes that Church history demonstrates the “progress of truth and its salutary influence on a world ruined by sin,” certainly not the restorationist conviction that gospel truth had been hidden since the […]
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