[…] 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, […]
[…] be a nation of priests” (1981, 9). Those of us in the Church, both women and men, share a common priestly heritage in the wearing of the garment. Worn next to the skin, it […]
[…] terms a “rabbinical metamorphosis.” Rudolf Glanz in Jews and Mormons (1963) mentions far more extreme examples among English “Anglo-Israelites,” including circumcision and seventh-day Sabbatarianism. Wilson notes that a New Englander in Santayana’s novel The […]
[…] Someone on the faculty had invited Stegner, one of the U’s better-known alumni, to talk informally with English majors and student writers. I qualified on both counts. Stegner appeared to me then the way […]