The Unhobbled Mare
May 3, 2018From a lace-curtained upstairs window, She absently watched the cluttered farmyard below. In the shadow of the shed she saw his cold forge, His heavy hammers, his grindstone and his powerful vise— Beyond this the […]
From a lace-curtained upstairs window, She absently watched the cluttered farmyard below. In the shadow of the shed she saw his cold forge, His heavy hammers, his grindstone and his powerful vise— Beyond this the […]
[…] friend. We celebrate birth and marriage and other events by song and dancing, exchanging presents, etc. But when we come, as today, to celebrate death (and I think some of you might question the […]
So you want to write a Mormon novel? Great! Here’s a story for you:— It’s about a Mormon bishop and his family, see, so you can get in all the little inside details about the […]
[…] cover art, my 1960s nostalgia and Spidey-senses kicked into high gear, and I couldn’t wait to crack it open. If you’re wondering whether the book delivered, here’s the thumbnail sketch. Likeable narrator? Check. Nostalgia? […]
From safe within the geographical and philosophical matrix that is the Church, it is often difficult for people my age and older to realize that such a thing as a “generation gap” may in […]
[…] Order is Love, has managed to put her finger on the pulse of Mormon history and discover a vigorous throb of universality which is at times sobering and at other times wonderfully funny. Mrs. […]
[…] situations is the capacity in certain areas to question evidence in both the university and church settings and —where all the facts are not in—a “tolerance for ambiguity.” When this happy amalgamation occurs, I’m convinced that […]
as told to Maryruth Bracy and Linda Lambert When Ernest Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS was on the national best-seller lists in 1941, so was Maurine Whipple’s TH E GIANT JOSHUA, a 637-page […]
[…] these differences compare with similar differences among other Christian churches. Mauss is the first to admit that a survey of two cities is hardly sufficient to make generalizations about the entire Church, but his impressive […]
[…] even greater, who can amplify his memory with her own and record it all interestingly and skillfully —their product is good, the folk history of the race, the lore of the people. For writing […]