[…] organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for learning more about LDS LGBTQ organizing in this period.
[…] companions to mid-nineteenth century Scandinavians. Pastor Walnum concluded his pamphlet with a plaintive plea: We pray, therefore, for each of your dear souls! Pray in God’s holy name; stay firm with what you have; […]
[…] family figures on whom many were based. As a self-proclaimed family chronicler, Sorensen found in her male forbears, indeed all members of the Eggertsen family, a significant source of information and ideas for her fiction.
[…] several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal government, which included confiscation and misuse of […]
[…] up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I had baptized her in 1980. As a BYU student, I had […]
[…] from Canada to the Mexican border” to report on the court trials of three men and three women for polygamy-related charges. Wallace Stegner described Short Creek during this extraordinary moment as “the capital of the […]
[…] second Gulf War and cannot endorse the sentiments or the policy that led us to send troops for a second time against Saddam Hussein. I’ll begin with some practical information about Catholicism, outline the […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South America: “The work of the Lord will grow slowly for a time here just as an oak grows slowly from an acorn. It will not shoot […]
[…] out the lock—would have been available to any curious listener on hand in Nauvoo that day. But for members of the Church—and, to a lesser degree, Christians of other denominations—”key” would have called up […]
[…] their personal situations when they prayed the psalm. David, of course, could have written some of them, for he was a musician and poet (1 Sam. 16:18; 2 Sam. 1:17-27); the vast majority of […]