[…] communism, etc., etc. The devilish neatness and simplicity of the thing is the easy illusion that I am choosing between good and evil, instead of between two or more evils which by their rivalry […]
[…] landed I called the hospital and found that Mother had died the hour before. I reported the news to my family in Delaware, and my husband said that there had been a letter from […]
[…] offers. I deliberately avoid attempting a study of the history of Mormon policy per se because I am by training a biblical theologian and exegete, not an LDS historian. As much remains to be […]
[…] there was no putting them back. In a year when Relief Society lessons, conference talks and Church News editorials routinely condemned working women, we proudly published on the back cover of our pink Dialogue […]
[…] of Mormonism without a thoughtful look at the path that has led from the Sacred Grove. Deseret News 1984 Church Almanac; World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1984, pp. 350-51, 544, 580; Bernard Quinn, […]
[…] Sylvester 1984, 5). That was how the younger children learned of their mother’s death. The Washington County News described Sarah Roundy Sylvester in her obituary as “an excellent seamstress having made sort of a […]
[…] opinions about its “officialness.” A search through the 1970s issues of the Ensign magazine and the Church News failed to turn up any official announcement. A spokesman from the First Presidency’s office “seemed to […]
[…] that primary, handwritten documents were abundantly discoverable. The documents of lesser importance than the few that made news stories gave his major discoveries credibility, and vice versa. His customers knew that they could lose […]
[…] at the time. That is how I account to myself for my actions—or inaction—in the incident I am going to relate. After deer season, I moved back into town with Aunt Fran, and without […]
[…] light from the moon on apple branches is also “like silvery weightless snow” (p. 5). Perhaps I am straining at a gnat to compare Jacob’s Well with Carl’s headgate. But similarities do exist. Literally, […]