[…] the practice of polygamy is closely associated in the popular mind with the Mormons, fascinating both scholars and casual readers, generating a plethora of anecdotal studies, and resulting in many oversimplifications and stereotypes. For […]
[…] to engrave a variety of images onto granite, including very detailed renditions of the various Mormon temples. Today commercially produced double gravestones featuring a temple as a central symbol more and more frequently mark […]
[…] the First Vision. Biblical criticism, properly understood, contradicts none of the cherished traditional LDS interpretations. All scriptural stories are literal. The Bible is best understood not by its own internal evidence but by interpretations […]
[…] years ago Latter-day Saints did not accept women’s expanded role in society as readily as they do today. When my first marriage ended in divorce, I was determined to complete my education. Though I […]
[…] who was not LDS, accurately describes my feelings at the time: Never fear. All is well. I am choosing wisely. I was brief in my initial communication with you due to time, and I […]
[…] (like “husband”) is a role that is automatically created by marriage. Even more significant in the good news department were the evident, serious, concentrated efforts of the men who spoke to use inclusive language […]
[…] accepted the invitation to share my experiences as a “cultural Jew” married to a “cultural Mormon.” Kenneth and I have been married almost twenty-three years. I have lived in Salt Lake City since 1971 […]
[…] to them as their small congregation drifted away into the winter chill. In mid-February, however, he received news which lifted his sag ging spirits. He noted in a 15 February diary entry that he […]
[…] formers, and institutional policy and practice. Collections of folk music, histories, and hymnals contain tantalizing hints of stories to be told, but until now, no one has attempted to draw all of the information […]
[…] of three things,” she wrote. “Earning a ‘big’ reward, atoning for past delinquencies, or else because I am a ‘damned fool’ ” (p. 273). Exile in Europe was not the enforced adventure some historians […]