[…] later that while the total number of missionaries was expected to increase, this was because all non- English-speaking missionaries would report to the Provo complex, not because of a dramatic jump in the number […]
[…] in earnest. In 1940 and 1942 Austin Fife published “The Three Nephites in Popular Tradition,” a ground- breaking col lection of fifty-two texts, and “Popular Legends of the Mormons,” which contained a summary of […]
[…] walked back beneath a continuously unfolding canopy of arches. Memories flowed through me like a strong current, breaking off into a strange network of smaller streams dappled by light and shadow. One was of […]
[…] inactive blacks in the Salt Lake area (Olsen 1980, 14; Cherry 1985b; Mauss 1981, 41). The Church News announced that the group would be an auxiliary program of the Liberty Stake. Meetings would be […]
[…] worthy and who through no fault of their own had no opportunity to be baptized in this world.” He did not allow, however, for any requirement for baptism at any time, considering it an […]
[…] scar tissue from an earlier operation had permanently blocked Helen’s fallopian tubes. In the hospital, absorbing the news, Helen wrote “Blight”: August is the month of broken dreams: The amber pear splits in the […]
[…] admit an adversarial position in regard to what they call “corporate” or “secular” as opposed to “sacral” world view. The division between secular and sacral, in the sense that Mircea Eliade expounded in his […]
[…] was something else out there, a better way to live. Only by braving their father’s wrath, by breaking with Catholicism and joining the Mormons and enduring his total, albeit temporary, rejection, had they been […]
[…] I could no longer communicate with the only person with whom I have ever been able to share my innermost thoughts. Although I know that I am not the only person to experience grief […]
[…] and essays dealing with the way men and women should behave—both within the Church and in the world at large. At varying times, these readings have evoked in me feelings of sympathy, restless ness, […]