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 […]
[…] a rural sociologist, and I were among the nearly three thousand participants in the Quinto Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (Fifth International Congress of Rural Sociology). It was my first trip to a Third […]
[…] I was among the forty or so people attending that meeting. I moved that we uphold the city officials in catching and punishing the youth and “that we favor an acceptance of the Japanese […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] promoted in the Church generally (Bergera and Priddis 1985); and a generalized hostility to “rock music” ( De Azevedo 1982). In part, such attitudes may derive from an exaggerated effort to “live down” the […]
[…] hostility of their fellow citizens, who drove the beleaguered Latter-day Saints from New York to Ohio to Missouri and, finally, to Illinois, where in 1844 Joseph Smith paid a martyr’s price for his vision […]
[…] consoling themselves (Taylor n.d.). Tyler had chaired the convention held in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City the previous 24 and 25 June. The purpose of the Utah IWY convention had been to […]
[…] the Wairarapa District with headquarters in the small all-Maori Hiona Branch, located on the outskirts of the city of Masterton. I had been serving as district president for approximately fifteen months when a regularly scheduled […]
[…] spiritual reform hoping to restore the spirituality that the Saints had enjoyed during the hardships of Kirtland, Missouri, Nauvoo, and during the exodus and the early settlement in Utah. After preaching reformation in Bountiful […]
The first three weeks of my mission in Koshigaya, a small city outside of Tokyo, Japan, breezed by. Despite two months at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, I still couldn’t understand the gibberish […]