[…] that there was an insufficient number of men. Some informants said the men had been killed in the Black Hawk War or the Spanish-American War. This is historically inaccurate since there were few Mormons killed […]
[…] bag the night before, the air was dry and clear. The mountain tops and tree-lined ridges stood black against a starlit sky. I looked down into the darkened canyon below and followed it out […]
[…] with devotion to Joseph Smith, viewed as an infallible oracle of God, and to a church and community that was believed to be a restoration of primitive Christianity. Only in the marriage of Zina […]
[…] of the kingdom. It ought to bring the student and the scholar into a resemblance of the di vine likeness. God is the prototype; his glory is intelligence. Intelligence comes from the Latin word […]
[…] It breaks the frame, transcends the painting Falls on pews below where angel is Made flesh: Curly-headed black child Named Moroni for a prophet in his folks’ new church He’s comfortable in cocoa-colored skin […]
[…] of literature, in this view, is roughly the equivalent of reading for what Gates calls the “ black signifying difference” in African-American literature, or of reading Herman Melville or Walt Whitman, as several critics […]
[…] the mere idea of an outside world, though our perception of it predicates our very sense of community. Once upon a time, when pioneers built a desert kingdom, lines in the red dirt served […]
[…] Holmes, “A Prophet Who Followed, Fulfilled, and Magnified: Brigham Young in Iowa and Nebraska,” in Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, eds., Lion of the Lord: Essays on the Life and Service of […]
[…] clean kitchen (streaking sauces on the counters, leaving carrot tops on the floors, flour on the shiny black stove top). When she was a child, she would sit on the counter next to her […]
Black is the absence of color to which the eye adjusts. Black magnifies the face of the beloved.