[…] separating church and state becomes a truly troublesome and frustrating task. Where do loyalty and duty lie, for example, when your Stake President asks you as president of a Mormon Elders’ Quorum to have […]
Almost from its beginning Mormonism was disparaged as funda mentally superstitious and irrational, with an appeal only for the poor and uneducated. Even before the description of Joseph Smith as “ignorant” and “illiterate” by […]
[…] have “earned” their awards. And I don’t want to enter into the problems of simple, lowly, unin formed members and their rights, duties and/or responsibilities to discuss current problems with their (our) leaders, although […]
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[…] web format of this article as a courtesy. There may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR.
[…] my father got up at 4 o’clock to light the fire, heat water on the Coleman stoves for washing and get the breakfast started, then woke the rest of us. Standing outside of our […]
[…] had a mild temperament, blond hair, bland blue eyes, and a downy upper lip—truly an unlikely candidate for the fast-draw artist the public later made him out to be. He came up to the […]
[…] Wendy hung up the receiver softly and almost imperceptibly slipped out of the kitchen, headed, Beth knew, for the upstairs bedroom with the extension phone. They had always agreed that there would be no […]
[…] She still had to shower, get dressed, and finish the cake. It was baked, cooling on the formica counter, but she still had to ice it. Cake. Coffee. Punch. Why not just skip refreshments […]
[…] to test her endurance. Not only did she have to clean the house and do the laundry for Sunday, she also had to bake the refreshments for those who would come to her home […]