[…] parallels between my own life and that of Fawn Brodie. She was born of stalwart Mormon pioneer stock, her ancestors having migrated to Utah during the mid-nineteenth century. Similarly, my own Mormon ancestors migrated […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] August 2001 at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. K.N.: It’s a privilege to be here today to talk with Duane Jeffery. As we were coming in, he said he felt a little […]
[…] short hair and ties and white shirts of In the Company of Men reminded me of the politics I encountered in the mission office during my own mission. LaBute knows male one upmanship like […]
[…] brought significant changes. Many of these changes were attributable to realpolitik, the belief that, at its simplest, politics consists of keeping, increasing, and demonstrating power. Real politik has been cited as a dominant theme […]
[…] the belief that only violence can contend with violence. And I believe that this assumption permeates our politics and culture. To oppose institutional violence, as I do, does not mean one cannot defend oneself. I […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 6 vols. published 1902-12, Vol. 7 published 1932; 1978 printing), 6:308-9. Stan Larson, “The King […]
[…] my life. So this is what I tell myself. Kyle and I, our story, it’s like this news report I remember from last winter about a skier who got lost in the mountains. For […]
[…] from the closet. Lucille couldn’t quite believe it either. Making the bed, she kept seeing the newspaper headlines: “Mother-Daughter Murdered by Vagrant.” Kicking herself for being so trusting of a total stranger. And no […]
[…] always seemed more moral than faithful. Amid 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works, their contradictions and ironies somehow suggested that politics was what we had in a world from which God had withdrawn.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 […]