[…] Revisionist Essays on the Past (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 173. For introductions to polyandry in world religions and anthropology, see Prince Pe ter, A Study of Polyandry (The Hague: Mouton & Co., […]
[…] admired his innovative lifestyle, carried out at the same time the LDS church sent missionaries around the world. Grandfather Munhall—a Methodist evangelist who traveled widely, knew the Bible “from front to back,” and wrote […]
[…] associated with inspiration from on high. They lead us to recognize, with Gerard Manley Hopkins, that the world is filled with the grandeur of God. They hasten the sudden feeling, on a crisp, winter […]
[…] for polygamy-related charges. Wallace Stegner described Short Creek during this extraordinary moment as “the capital of the world.” This story is largely drawn from the contemporary accounts of Joseph Lyman Jessop, a polygamist from […]
[…] nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this conflict in a detached or academic way because it is […]
[…] me for not reading you Curious George every day. Aren’t you?” ;’Liz, you’re not responsible for the world’s woes.” “You had everything you wanted.” “Everything cactus juice could buy.” “You’re blaming Product for your […]
[…] “You live on about five that I can see. This interested me. “Tell,” I said. “Your dad’s world,” she held up her left thumb, which Christo pher grabbed. “Your husband’s.” The index finger. “Your […]
[…] their good works, their contradictions and ironies somehow suggested that politics was what we had in a world from which God had withdrawn. In Brodie’s biography, when Joseph broke the law for a higher […]
[…] to those broader scholarly questions. As a result, we are learning that Mormonism is important to the American (and broader) experience in ways we had never imagined. Its significance goes beyond its supposed embodiment […]
[…] his breath pulsing against the back of her neck. “I’m fine,” she says again. The day is breaking across the Midwestern horizon. Yet an other day. Suddenly an idea comes to her, clear as […]