[…] cover.) Rueckert approaches the whole narrative as an experiment in this dual perspective. She allows us to share in her youthful worry that she’s not good enough at being a “Mormon girl” when she […]
[…] and then it’s slow. It’s joyful and then it’s hopeless. It’s silly and then it’s serious. It’s breaking and then it’s healing. It’s always full of life. I love you, brother. Until we meet […]
[…] aphorism appears on the first page of Der Fall Wagner, translated as The Case of Wagner in English. See Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce […]
[…] 2020, three significant new approaches to the Joseph Smith story have been undertaken in comics, each successfully breaking a path through the gnarled forest of known history. In short, Pillar of Light, written by […]
[…] such powerlessness, is seen as one of Jacob’s overarching themes. For Sharon J. Harris, assistant professor of English at BYU, covenant and inheritance function in some ways as the centralizing topics found in her […]
[…] vital component to the manifestation of God’s power on earth. The power that forged the cosmos was shared and manifest in the temple liturgy. This included being raised to the status of queen and […]
[…] correcting “the morals of the community.” The secret oaths and penalties were not entirely effective, however, and news soon leaked out among the church that there was “a secret group of Saints, including women, […]
[…] Thomas W. Grafton, Alexander Campbell (St. Louis, Mo.: Christian Publishing Company, 1897), 127. Grant Underwood, The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 20. F. Mark McKiernan, The […]
[…] commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men” […]
[…] to southern Alberta, and most of them brought only one wife. Thus, in 1888, when the Lethbridge News and the Canadian government began accusing the Mormons of practicing polygamy, they insisted that they were […]