[…] joy of these faithful Saints, who had been admonished by their prophet, “The greatest responsibility in this world God has laid upon us, is to seek after our dead” (Smith n.d.). Not only were […]
[…] and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world” (3 Ne. 1:13). In a subconscious way I had taken this touching passage as scriptural support […]
[…] added light. No one can answer all my pain but Thee, Ordain me to my womanhood, and share The light that Queens and Priestesses must bear, Wilcox 1987, 73 The Fall of Eve Perhaps […]
[…] promise of contemporary Mormon women more realistically than she. Underlying these stories is a sense of the world’s irremediable ills. In many of them, it is Sillitoe’s express purpose to uncover those ills. The […]
[…] the women —like getting donuts at Winchell’s before priesthood meeting on Sunday mornings, which Mom said was breaking the Sabbath. Dad wanted us on his side. Mom knew in her heart that excluding her […]
[…] hired Dad to train volunteers. It was then that Junie and I were initiated into a larger world. The PCVs, as we called the trainees, would go to Brazil, provided they got through Dad’s […]
About fifteen years ago, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher invited Franklin Fisher, a young and aesthetically bearded professor of English at the University of Utah, to read from his novel in progress at a gathering of […]
[…] end of her pioneer journey and weep without reason. She couldn’t remain old-fashioned Ane either. She became English-style Anne in their account (“Annie” finally on her tombstone). On April 10, 1866, they started north […]
[…] he was in “flesh and most excellent spirits,” and by the time he could get her bad news everything would be over, one way or the other. Tildy Elizabeth lifted her head and listened. […]
[…] done superbly in the Tales of Alvin Maker series, his reimagining of the Joseph Smith story in a world of science and religion and magic, Card attempts here to penetrate the surface of religious narrative and analyze the […]