[…] 1857 in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a polygamist and the first Mormon convicted and imprisoned (1884-87) for violating federal law (Edmunds Act of 1882) regarding unlawful co habitation. Upon Lorenzo Snow’s appointment as […]
Today is June 9, 1998. I have been forty-three for two days. My father, Robert Wallace Blair, is teaching spring term; he will retire when the term ends after thirty-four years as a linguistics […]
[…] grip of a sex scandal in the White House, a sex scandal in which a president (named for Thomas Jefferson) flatly denied “improper sexual relations,” believing, evidently, that no physical evidence could link him […]
[…] in 1681 by god-fearing visionary William Penn as part of a “holy experiment” to provide a sanctuary for the religiously persecuted. As Joseph Smith would nearly 200 years later, William Penn—a multi-talented man with […]
[…] John Le Carre’s The Russia House, and Tony Kushner’s dramatic work, Angels in America. Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, for example, refers to Salt Lake City as a place of “abundant energy; not much intelligence.” Abbott […]
[…] While overtly complementary, this discourse is profoundly problematic when applied to Mor mons, just as it is for Asian-Americans. Each term of the phrase “model minority discourse” is important. Our use of the term […]
[…] were waiting to hear an address by a scholar who had been disciplined at the church university for doing little else than telling truths about LDS history, truths that had been deemed inconvenient by […]
Is There Cause for Concern? Since mid-century, dramatic changes in family demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual […]
[…] 631 pages, the book is packed with useful and well-documented details. It pro vides many helpful features for the reader interested in the complex history of LDS missions in Asia, including maps, extensive bibliographies, and […]
[…] road in four or five lanes, avoiding potholes, sometimes even going into oncoming traffic. Instead of stopping for pedestrians, the cars speed up and honk five or six times. Hoards of people are always […]