[…] on the margins of upright Mormon life, just around the mountain from the proper neighborhoods where Brigh am Young had lived. There the landmarks seemed grander—the temple and the Endowment House, the facade of […]
[…] Then, shortly after noon, he calls his mother, who has just returned from church, and breaks the news to her that we’re coming. He drops me at my apartment for a quick shower while […]
[…] Two for joy. Three for a letter. Four for a boy.” Well, she’d be getting a boy today. Robert. She’d actually be getting two boys. Robert would be coming with his friend, Joseph. Patty […]
[…] a mother of eight escapes out the back door and shoots herself in the head. According to news reports and neighborhood gossip, the morning wasn’t out of the ordinary: the kids were fighting over […]
[…] what he means by that. I go to punk/hardcore shows, and I’ve heard the term on the news reports about gang violence in Salt Lake. But Jacob says most of the media coverage of […]
[…] in its leadership, its most prolific writer, its chief theologian and historian, and its most capable defender, today, only thirty-three years later, his name is scarcely known to large segments of the membership of […]
[…] than a quarter century Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History has been recognized by most professional American historians as the standard work on the life of Joseph Smith and perhaps the most important […]
[…] system that was far more dynamic than many of his spiritual descendants recognize. Mormonism is so successful today, not because it remains the religion nineteenth century farmers knew, but because it has easily undergone […]
[…] but because the Plan concerns them and requires their maximum participation in it. The discussion was a lively one—apart from those rebellious angels who rejected it entirely, there was a general protest that the […]
[…] nostalgia.” He should have included Fitzgerald, and even then the list would have been incomplete. Nostalgia permeates American fiction in our century. Donald Marshall may not equal the names above in literary skill, but […]