The Grace of the Court
April 18, 2018[…] hadn’t done in nearly three months. I stayed up until 2:30 and was asleep when Lynn c alled from Oakland at 10 A.M. to tell me that her sister Carol was depressed because a […]
[…] hadn’t done in nearly three months. I stayed up until 2:30 and was asleep when Lynn c alled from Oakland at 10 A.M. to tell me that her sister Carol was depressed because a […]
[…] economy, and our polygamous practices. Individual Mormons fit quite handily into middle-class America, so how does be ing Mormon distinguish us? Within Mormon communities, faithfulness is often gauged and defined by “activity.” Yet among […]
[…] planners and government decision-makers? The obvious answer lies in what psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton calls “psychic numb ing.”When we try to grasp the true scope and import of the nuclear arms race, we are […]
[…] assumes and champions the ability of persons to examine and revise not only what they are do ing but also the assumptions underlying what they’re doing. He suggests that they can turn upside down […]
[…] Ohio, in 1835, were dis covered in New York City. It was a find that created consi derable excitement. This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected […]
[…] of 1847, caught the “strange fever” herself and shortly thereafter headed west. She and her family eventu ally settled in eastern Oregon. Her chronicle of that journey, a classic in its attention to the […]
[…] a manual of research procedure; that function is to be filled by a companion volume, Ancestry’s Gui de to Research, scheduled for later publication (though referred to in The Source as already having appeared). […]
[…] market, thereby making a valuable contribution to the “sisters” genre. The book is consciously written to inclu de a younger audience in its readership, though this by no means excludes those past adolescence. The […]
[…] the Mississippi and the Missouri after a savage bout with cholera. Heavy snows had delayed them, kill ing many of their animals. Their leader was Dan Jones, converted in 1843 and baptized 19 January […]
[…] mesa. We can hear them talking but we cannot get them. My grandchild, education is the lad der. Tell our people to take it. (Manuelito, c 1880). Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, […]