The Quilt
April 19, 2018[…] kindly old man who brought her bags of balloons and called her “Sis.” “We met in Park City.” The grandmother’s voice slipped into a distant intimacy. “I was teaching then. Taught those children everything—their […]
[…] kindly old man who brought her bags of balloons and called her “Sis.” “We met in Park City.” The grandmother’s voice slipped into a distant intimacy. “I was teaching then. Taught those children everything—their […]
[…] of Utah, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, by his alma mater in Salt Lake City. He had earlier earned a doctoral degree in social philosophy from the University of Strasbourg in […]
[…] years of this I finally accepted his offer to have me join his organization in New York City. When I told President Brimhall of my intentions, he thought I was being disloyal to the […]
[…] put it, a Zionic community. They continue to pursue plans to build a temple in Jackson County, Missouri. Several hundred Samoans of Utah Mormon persuasion began in 1969 to migrate to Independence, Missouri, acting, […]
[…] “bad” state to be in undoubtedly has consequences for marriage, childraising, and larger issues of identity that de serve fuller exploration. The double messages which coexist in talks, lessons, and general attitudes are: 1. […]
[…] the northeast had been qualified by southern folklore moving westward to these outposts over three or four de cades. By this time, French folklore had also reached these pivotal states by slow penetration across […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Smith’s futuristic plans never fully materialized. As the Church began to expand in Ohio and Jackson County, Missouri, converts imported a diversity of lifestyles to the Mormon strongholds. Not only had a majority of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the founder and the doctrines of the Ghost Dance religion had “become subjects of ignorant misrepresentation and de liberate falsification. Different writers have made him a Paiute, a half-blood, and a Mormon white man.” […]