Mornings
April 17, 2018I Friday morning. June sky like denim through the bus windows. The last day be fore the weekend, Marc repeated to himself, like a gypsy muttering a chant. He swung off the bus four blocks […]
I Friday morning. June sky like denim through the bus windows. The last day be fore the weekend, Marc repeated to himself, like a gypsy muttering a chant. He swung off the bus four blocks […]
[…] to my mother,” she whispered, but she said it with complicity, so that I understood her regard for me, as she smiled and passed me bread thickly smeared with exhaustingly sweet halava. Faith and […]
[…] the wall above her bed. Her goal was to have colored every street in the city be fore she was transferred. Today’s street was narrow and crooked; uninterrupted walls of four-story buildings lined both […]
Mormon history is full of tales about formidable women, bearing the stamp of true matriarchs despite petticoats and plural marriage. The present biography of Mary Fielding Smith is written by one of her descendants […]
[…] Black Panther’s conversion to Mormonism as simply “a complete rejection of a positive black identity.” Justin Gif ford, through the pages of Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver, likewise downplays Cleaver’s so-called […]
[…] that when we got home, he was, as Will expressed it, “burned to a frazzle.” Will reached for the mentholatum—his favorite remedy for everything, I was soon to learn—and started to apply it with […]
[…] to the leader ship of fallen man” (p. 58). (One might say that while man is punished for his own sins, woman continues to be punished for Eve’s.) Turner tells us that meek obedience […]
Participants: William E. Fort, Jr. Louis C. Midgley Carroll Quigley W. Cleon Skousen Dialogue departs from its usual review format in the following exchange of points of view on W. […]
[…] leader. One member objected, but the remaining five supported the proposal so enthusiastically that it was scheduled for the following Saturday. When the day arrived, the objector was the only one to attend. Why […]
For some years I have been working on Jungian interpretations of history, not in order to lay claim to any special insight into historical events, but as a way of enriching our experience […]