[…] two eyewitnesses to the Woolley story, Patriarch John W. Woolley and Daniel R. Bateman, both of whom lived and died affirming its validity. The reader thus gradually begins to notice that Anderson hopes to […]
[…] the Cottonwoods (1977), but fortunately had the resources to do it himself. Bela Petsco faced the s ame predicament with his Nothing Very Important and Other Stories (1979). (In 1983, and 1984, Signature Books […]
Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” […]
From my youth I was blessed with a God-shaped hole in my identity. I knew I c ame from somewhere, that my ancestors were whole and bore a cultural armor that it was my […]
[…] ago. All the scuttlebutt the last couple decades over the “real” details surrounding Joseph Smith—whether his polyg amy, treasure-hunting, translating with a stone, whatever—has weakened Church members’ collective confidence in a once solid-seeming story. […]
[…] They are still described in terms of their appearance and relationship status; sermons about how they should live are the domain of male authority; their own representatives in the Church spend much of their […]
[…] Schumann-Fitzner, told President Burkhardt that the state had given the “green light” to the Freiberg project. That news might have been a reason for rejoicing. But there is no evidence of it in Elder […]
[…] In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing what happened to the […]
[…] 1843 in her Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow . . . (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company, 1884), 70, 73, and 75. Abigail had married Enoch V. Leavitt (1799-1866) in 1821, but […]
Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.