[…] at the ward schoolhouse. Grant opened the meeting by reproving Bishop Abraham Hoagland. Then he began to search the spirits of the bishop’s counselors, members of the teachers quorum, and “all the people” in […]
Annette Hampshire’s Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years is simultaneously refreshing and exasperating. To her credit, Hampshire strives for a degree of methodological and theoretical rigor that has been sadly absent in most Mormon historiography.…
[…] grandmother sat down and talked to his mother in Polish, while his father and grandfather conversed in English. His father, a Mormon from Utah, had to do most of the talking. The boy was […]
[…] the form of a Spirit—and a Father. I am intrigued by the thought still, and as I search the scriptures and think on the various evidences and ministrations of the Spirit, I have begun […]
[…] her no longer metaphor. She comes to find in that seemingly rigid, restrictive culture what we all search for—community and spirituality—or as Dostoevsky said, “bread and miracles.” She came to that old orthodox culture with […]
[…] religion you want to join. You can’t join my religion because of me. You’ve got to really search out yourself and see which one you really want and which one you can live.” She […]
I mourn my father.
I am afraid to relive him
lest my heart break.
[…] addition, the volume’s first essay, Leonard J. Arrington’s eloquent plea for serious, professional historical inquiry — “The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History” —is an important declaration of intellectual independence that present-day […]
[…] the Communist block, doing Communism their own way. Today they’re shattering ceasefires, saying one thing, doing another, breaking promises to the European community. I think most of us prefer doing things our own way, […]
[…] 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 […]