Afterthought
April 12, 2018[…] twins, the bishop spoke to me twice—in the foyer. The Relief Society president called me once to get directions to the hospital so she could visit another ward member. Her replacement visited once, as did […]
[…] twins, the bishop spoke to me twice—in the foyer. The Relief Society president called me once to get directions to the hospital so she could visit another ward member. Her replacement visited once, as did […]
[…] thoughts espoused at a university and the squalid life so prevalent in my city. My intensive reading, writing, thinking, and observing bruised me; I could not solve the injustices I saw. Life seemed so […]
[…] I really didn’t understand that I was doing something wrong by spending too much time in the service of the Church. When the Wilmington Stake was organized, President Johnson became stake president, and I […]
[…] have read Lee’s statement in Sunstone or other media. Some of you have copies of the original paper he read at his hearing, photocopies of which hit the Mormon grapevine very quickly. Those of […]
[…] communities. Almost always, the perpetrator is someone known and trusted by the child, for who else could get close enough to violate in such an intimate and destructive way? Children are easily manipulated; their […]
[…] pretend we are poetry, that we rhyme because lying in bed, we are parallel, and when we get up, we vary the repetitions of the same old hellos, same old I love yous, same […]
[…] Sarah died, while Brother Johnson was living with his grandmother, his Uncle Arthur came out of the service. Brother Johnson told him that he had a dream that all the family went to heaven, […]
[…] hand Sorenson insists that “he crucial information for determining dimensions is how long it took people to get from one place to another.” Yet in the sole Book of Mormon passage where specific points […]
[…] prophet’s wife in Genesis 12. But this is perhaps quibbling. New ton is a thoroughgoing professional. Her writing that there “is overwhelming evidence that Joseph did indeed reveal ‘the principle’” contradicts the public position […]
[…] one of the issues causing internal dissent but did not mention other Nauvoo polygamists. Although some scholarly writing has linked polygamy in Nauvoo to Smith’s death, studies of polygamy typically overlook Nauvoo and begin […]