[…] elevation by means of faulting. (A fault is a fracture in the earth’s crust along which oppos ing sides of the crust have moved.) Movement along some faults has been measured in thousands of […]
[…] before the adoption of our third baby swept me suddenly back to square one. If it was a setback, it was the happiest one imaginable. Now, however, poised between treatment for a serious illness […]
[…] happens in frequently. In my time in the state, I can think of only one non-Mormon hold ing a high political office. In 1983, according to Gottlieb and Wiley, America’s Saints: The Rise of […]
[…] wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourn ing, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though […]
[…] a cow or bucked hay; but after Geary, those experiences seem like my own. Below the surface de tails of the essays lie themes that are my own: the reality of family, work, and […]
[…] a significant extent the institutional church, are involved in ecumenical activities. “Ecumenism” in this sense means work ing with other denominations and community organizations in cooperative endeavors, not merging organizational identities or giving up […]
[…] law-like statements. It is a truism among historians that “all generalizations are false, including this one.” Alexis de Tocqueville, the nineteenth-century French historian, writing in the spirit of his contemporary, historicist Ranke, argued the necessity […]
[…] as a story teller and dramatist. Despite the opposition of the bishop, townspeople enjoyed the movies, rid ing over to see them at Cedar City’s Thorley Theatre; and Sarah’s brothers were enthusiastic members of […]
Mormon history has always been a hot topic. From the earliest days of Church history over a century and a half ago, vastly divergent accounts of the origins and development of the Church of […]
[…] deliver one of his fatherly, comforting ser mons, lone Palfreyman, ward organist, would play, and Gaye’s husband, Al, would pronounce the invocation. During this itme, we alternately laughed, argued, cried, and suffered from migraine. […]