Mothers and Daughters: Parting
April 16, 2018[…] Lady Otomo’s. For Mother ex pressed her longing and loneliness not in a poem or a letter, but in carefully selected personal stories shared over a sink of peach pits, skins, and sterile quart jars.
[…] Lady Otomo’s. For Mother ex pressed her longing and loneliness not in a poem or a letter, but in carefully selected personal stories shared over a sink of peach pits, skins, and sterile quart jars.
[…] time his life seemed to be that of an exemplary Mormon. On 29 December 1854, the Deseret News reported that seventeen-year-old Orson had arranged an original song which was performed during the intermission of […]
[…] African Church members. Still, my experience is not without lessons. I may not be male, but I am white, middle-class, physically whole. And if I am to believe the compliment paid some time ago […]
[…] office, on heavy manual Underwood and Royal typewriters, Meg and Rich and I pound out editorials and campus news. Meg and I both send per sonal news to Russell, she in nicely rounded, erect letters […]
[…] Bible, but it ignores the centuries required for the Old and New Testaments to achieve canonical status. Breaking with tradition of the 1850s and 1860s, the contemporary church canonizes within days, and recently without […]
[…] returned, Church attorneys undoubtedly warned them of the danger to Church property, particularly the temples (Deseret Weekly News, 13, 20, 27 Sept. 1890). Within a week of his return, President Woodruff confided in his […]
[…] the words, realizing I could not do what she and I so much wanted. So, while I am of the faith, some would say I am marginal in it, having failed to claim my […]
[…] education and assimilation skills. My own experience has been somewhat different. Since 1982 when, as a Deseret News reporter, I began to research and write about Indian issues in Utah, my world view has been […]
[…] anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed […]
[…] must think more courageously about how this democratic church would function. In a narrower sense then I am addressing the most universal tenet of democratic life: its commitment to free inquiry and open promotion […]