[…] radio talk show that Mecham generated either fanatical support or wild disdain. Linda Turley, a Latter-day Saint news anchor for a Phoenix television station, describes the split among Arizonans: There were those who took […]
<i>Dialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83</i><br> Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
[…] home for a family meeting. The next morning, she arranged for her husband’s doctor to break the news and encourage her husband to check himself into the hospital, which he did briefly. Meanwhile, she […]
[…] years after they moved back to Utah. Many-roled, Helen has been teacher, actress, wife, mother, writer, environmentalist, and feminist, all interpreted in her own distinctive style. Now, almost eighty-nine and widowed by Henry’s death […]
[…] a good girl. . . . Oh my affectionate Emma, I want you to remember that I am a true and faithful friend, to you and the children, forever. My heart is intwined around […]
[…] lasting qualities. Such is clearly the case with Neal Chandler’s ironically titled Benediction, a superb col lection of stories about Mormons outside Zion who are very much in the world and increasingly of it, and […]
[…] Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Kuwait) have “leavened” Canadian attitudes in general. Church members often react to war news with a kind of “millenialist anticipation,” an almost backhanded joy arising from the belief that we […]
[…] was published anyway. In 1835 the text of the verse was changed to read as it does today, allowing for the doctrine to be publicly taught: “And show not these things unto the world […]
[…] it is,” Abby says. “Any minute they’re going to want to come inside and get warm. What am I going to do then?” Karmine looks at Peter. “I’m coming over.” “Good,” Abby says. “And […]
[…] me like green semaphores.” So do they in her poems. In “Writing Copy” the grotesque in the news floods into a real day and “the sheepish guy in the parking/ terrace who waits in […]