[…] the official church to suppress the enablement of women, historical research, and open discussion of Mormon issues, dating from the appointment of Leonard Arrington as church historian in 1972. This she assembled as a […]
[…] “the universe will end, and there is no God.” I believed the ape part—my uncle had thick black hair on his arms and knuckles, so apes was easy—and the universe became a nulliverse, so […]
[…] I feel sensuous and ashamed and my lips feel full and flushed and I think about the black smoke in my lungs and won der if I will get cancer. And suddenly the cigarette […]
[…] my isolation in the Church, with its frustration and loneliness … Yesterday was stake conference. On a black day that’s always good for re minding me of my inadequacies. The only way of escaping […]
[…] and humor. Many Mormon writers would write the ambiguity out of this scene. A priesthood holder, while dating one man’s wife, wants to pray with her about his adultery with another woman, wife to […]
[…] and tend to become indifferent to religion rather than join another, similar church. Sterling McMurrin expressed the di lemma simply when he opined: “The question is not whether Mormon ism is true, but whether […]
[…] “everyone” were a lifeless body “or old man’s staff.” What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. —Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) […]
So now you sit with a black eye by a glass wall on the sixteenth floor. Already I see our talk in paragraphs I can’t read, topics in the margin, one clear sentence about clutter.
[…] of difficult issues. Subtlety—or complexity—of thought seems to be too much for the media. If it’s not black or white, yea or nay, liberal or conservative, it’s too complex for most reporters or their […]
[…] (“hemis” means “far away”—they have come from far away and must now return). Their bodies are painted black with white symbols on the breast and back, and tufts of spruce branches are tucked in their […]