A Reading Group
April 18, 2018[…] the phone, locked it against my ear with my shoulder, and continued to read the already stale news. “Hello,” I said. It was Evan Francis, first counselor in our ward bishopric. “How are you?” […]
[…] the phone, locked it against my ear with my shoulder, and continued to read the already stale news. “Hello,” I said. It was Evan Francis, first counselor in our ward bishopric. “How are you?” […]
[…] three days later. “You are Estevan Aju’s father?” he asked. “Yes.” “I’ve come from Tecpan.” “You have news of Estevan—is he all right?” The missionary looked down, shook his head. “Dead,” he said. “Muerto?” […]
[…] of the General Authorities; and sermons typically addressed issues of doctrine and accommodation. Articles from the Deseret News, however, indicate a marked decline of popular support for female employment during this time. For example, […]
[…] vote to end polygamy. This tactic was suggested by the New York Times in 1867 (reprint, Deseret News, 15 Jan. 1867; Beeton 1986, x) and was subsequently introduced as a bill in the United […]
[…] he said, returning to 2 Nephi. All these years and he still couldn’t let her inside. “Any news?” “Not really.” A bad sign. Usually she came home brimming with gossip. Silence meant she was […]
[…] be, at least where the church is very young. As in any country where the church is breaking new ground and the first generation of missionaries is necessarily foreign, establishing a religion unbiased by […]
[…] of being consistent to the point where church membership would dwindle away to the vanishing point, or breaking down the system in order to keep the churches going, the New England ministers held a […]
[…] $10 million” (Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 1996, quoting a remark made in 1994; see also Deseret News, 8 Jan. 1994). By 1996, when he realized he could not be elected without running on […]
[…] enough to keep him liquored up for a week. He thought about the day he’d heard the news via the Air-That-Tells-A Story: Imperial Empire of Japan . . . Pearl Harbor .. . Day […]
[…] churches which matched the new nation-states’ strengthening sense of collective identity were created. There were now new English, Dutch, Danish, Scottish churches, each with its own myth of faith and nation, and with confidence […]