[…] nineteen hundred and twelve; Not seeing the life that has been his dying since, Though he has braked the crawl toward surcease More courageously successful than we (even I, the Valley’s Poet) In our existing.
[…] reassurance that God’s foreknowledge is absolute and exerts no causative force on events can rebuild my real world for me. A world where time, with all its sense of reality and significance, disappears into […]
<i>Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45</i><br> Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he believes […]
[…] but who also shared some of my deepest feelings about the life of the spirit in the world, who seemed unafraid to think, to explore, to question—and unembarrassed to fast, to pray, and to […]
[…] to have time to be president of my class, teach the junior girls in the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, take part in the school play, go stepping with young galahads, and even have […]
“I’m sure that you wouldn’t be interested in the only position I have to offer you. We do need a teacher in our Negro school but the problems are insurmountable. The children are undisciplined […]
[…] speech, in light-mindedness—”in everything not good or beautiful.” This organization still exists today as the Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association. Later, the women of the Relief Society organized Primary Associations for children in each […]
[…] complete agreement on various issues, and there were some. More notable, though, were the shared feelings and mutual support that emerged. The effect was cathartic. We decided to meet again and have come together […]
[…] the a priori issue of the legitimacy of the faith assumptions. Such middle ground is created when mutual interest in the existential history of the Latter-day Saints replaces mutual anxiety over dogma. Additionally it […]
[…] discovery of Mormon belief and practices, predicted that if something did not change the Mormon “course, the world’s history will not furnish a parallel of degradation and wretchedness.” Among the earliest observers to suggest […]