No branch of study, aca demic or popular, penetrates as deeply into man’s intuitive life or mirrors his contemplative self as clearly as folklore. Folklore lays bare man’s myriad fears and anxieties, while at […]
[…] the Jewish Diaspora, the persecution of early Christians, the Holocaust, the extinction of the Nephites, and the Missouri period in Mormon history all point to some important lessons: In spite of Mormons’ “chosenness,” we […]
[…] other stake positions. Still, by the time I was twenty-eight, he was dead in his Salt Lake City home, just before his fifty-first birthday, of alcohol-related causes. I don’t remember what his bishop said […]
As a school teacher in Tooele—junior high science/English—I carpool the forty miles from Salt Lake City every day. I had always assumed, as teens turned into twenties, that someday I would be married and […]
[…] in its scope. I get the feeling, however, that the younger generations who are now local lea ders do not recognize the revolutionary nature of these changes in the same way that I see […]
[…] he said, “are to be considered the heads of the Church” (HC 2:509). Later, in Salt Lake City, John would recall, “In Kirtland, Ohio, four brothers sat in the Patriarchal seat in the Temple, […]
[…] Although I didn’t receive the title of department chairman until 1944, I had served in that capa city from the time I re turned. During those seven years, the sociology department greatly increased its […]
[…] her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes in Provo, Utah. Those two sister cities […]
[…] one of Theodore Roethke’s poems. I believe it is a dark time as far as our un derstanding of homosexuality is concerned, and yet I also believe that in some ways darkness has the […]
[…] and with members of their own backgrounds. In 1990 language wards and branches organized in Salt Lake City during the 1960s, such as the German ward and several Tongan wards, were still functioning. Black […]