[…] with one of her sons, Feramorz Y. Fox, and worked as a typist for the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association. She resumed housekeeping only to nurse her husband through illnesses in 1921 and from […]
[…] followed in most printed versions of the discourse since Grimshaw’s amalgamation was first published in the Deseret News, 8 July 1857. The last column is the more recent amalgamated text of the discourse prepared […]
[…] Mormon History where I could read the writings of other scholars who were maintaining faith in a world of shattered titans. Fur thermore, I had a strong will to believe. I knew the whisperings […]
Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the […]
I am twenty-one years old. I lie in the golden light of a Korean September afternoon. I have curled myself up on the musty, avocado-skinned sofa that occupies a large corner of the living […]
[…] with infinity, not having been able to make the finite work very well. The perimeters of my world have turned inhospitable. Marriage has failed; separation isn’t better. Thirty-two years of a Mormon temple marriage […]
[…] baby-boomers, philosopher Roger Scruton as a young man accepted the sexual standards of his generation, eschewing marriage in favor of “experiments” with less binding relationships. Scruton finally did marry when he found that his […]
In September of 1993 Lavina Fielding Anderson was excommunicated from the LDS church for documenting and publishing instances of the church’s punishing treatment of Mormon intellectuals and feminists, as well as other instances […]
The doctrine of divine providence states that God is the supreme governor of the world—past, present, and future. Different versions of the doctrine depend on different interpretations of governance. The strongest version of this […]
[…] hugged him. “Oh, Son, Son. I’m afraid there’s a lot of unhappiness and misery in this old world.” When Bob helped Jim weed the vegetable and flower gardens or mow the lawn, Jim’s dad […]