Thousand Springs
March 22, 2018[…] rock. Under yesterday’s snow, the canyon was a field of dark eyes and mouths, black, braided ropes running down walls, uncovered, untouched. The stones wore mantillas, fall gardens became […]
[…] rock. Under yesterday’s snow, the canyon was a field of dark eyes and mouths, black, braided ropes running down walls, uncovered, untouched. The stones wore mantillas, fall gardens became […]
[…] Latham Runyon got up from the bed and clumped down to the kitchen phone. He lifted the black handset and stuck his finger in the first hole. He paused a moment, just to feel […]
[…] basis of their form, more than eighty psalms fall into one of three types: hymn, individual and community “lament” (petition), and thanksgiving. About thirty more can be grouped together according to their subject as […]
[…] A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993). Basil Davidson, The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (London: James Currey, 1992). Andre G. Frank, […]
[…] apartments, and private residences for owners, architects, contractors, real estate investors, and developers” (xii). These previously unpublished black and white photographs run chronologically from 1903 to 1940, with the majority dating to the first […]
[…] Book of Moses, Bushman does not even mention the prominent role assigned certain biblical counterfigures identified with black people—namely Cain, Ham, and Canaan. Instead, Bushman vaguely alludes to “visions of light and truth alternate […]
[…] pretty easy to get lost and go unnoticed. Surrounded by people, I seemed to exist in a black hole of loneliness through much of my childhood. I was depressed most of the time. I […]
Nothing thrilled me more as a little girl than hearing my parents’ courtship story: my mother, diminutive and dimpled, was eighteen, Australian, and a recent convert to the Church, living with her parents and six…
[…] on the one hand, the reformative revelations related to the cessation of polygamy and to ordaining worthy black men to the Mormon priesthood, and, on the other, the official declaration related to family values. […]
[…] “decisive” shift in American attitudes against racism with the accompanying perception of “Mormons as bigots,” the “insoluble di lemma” of Brazil where the construction of a temple meant that “application of the policy would […]