[…] the spring of 1993 I attended my first Mormon feminist retreat, Pilgrimage, with several graduate students and English teachers—all women in our twenties or early thirties—who had met together once a week for nearly […]
[…] sorrow was too big to handle. My mind drifted to what I had just read with my English 115 students. Neil Postman in “Learning by Story” argues that our lives must be surrounded by […]
[…] (Utah) Stake; LDS Deceased Members File; Ogden 2nd Ward Membership Records, 32; “Madeline C. Reeder,” Deseret Evening News, 27 June 1956; “Rites Wednesday for Contractor: S.L. Build er Dies at Age of 76 From […]
[…] his gift to his followers (see, e.g., Edward Stevenson to the Editor, 30 Nov. 1881, Deseret Evening News 15 ). Shipps, “Prophet Puzzle,” 19. That Smith’s mission of saving souls went beyond the usual […]
Sir Henry Maine, our first great modern legal historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market […]
[…] and those who are a part of it. In the many, many papers I wrote as an English major, I learned to start with an idea, a thesis, and support it with various examples […]
[…] through the front door at any time and decimate those innocent lives (“Park Host,” “There’s Too Much News,” and “Late-Night TV”). The most interesting aspect of this periph eral violence is that the reader […]
[…] Creationism (N.Y.: W. H. Freeman, 2000), 93-94. Jeffrey L. Sheler and Joannie M. Schroff, “The Creation,” U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 23,1991, p. 59, available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/create.htm. James Glanz, “Evolutionists Battle New Theory […]
[…] without causing the death of others, and we embrace the values of acculturated Ammonites who narrowly avoided breaking their own covenants of nonviolence only by sending their own children into battle. We forget that […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 2d ed. rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12, Vol. 7 published 1932; 1976 printing), 4:358-60. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d. ed. […]