The Last Code Talker
March 31, 2018[…] the Jews would be persecuted? Was that a justification for death camps. We think we corner the market on truth, but the other day as we were leaving Brother Yazzie’s, a rattlesnake coiled up […]
[…] the Jews would be persecuted? Was that a justification for death camps. We think we corner the market on truth, but the other day as we were leaving Brother Yazzie’s, a rattlesnake coiled up […]
[…] to the bishop’s house on June 9, 1978. It was the bishop’s wife who told us the news, weeping: “El prof eta ha recibido una revelation! Todos los hombres di gnos pueden recibir el […]
[…] my opportunities for continuation or advancement here.” 1. “I can honestly say that being sensitive to the politics of the administration was far more an issue for me in my previous faculty position than […]
[…] another great debt we owe that publisher, which has almost singlehandedly kept serious Mormon fiction on the market the past twenty years. The Backslider, in my opinion, rivals Sorensen’s The Evening and the Morning […]
[…] of Utah more at home with professors than fellow students: his early lessons in academic and church politics came in long conversations with philosopher E. E. Erickson and sociologist Arthur Beeley. The most startling […]
[…] his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, this attitude continued to animate authoritative interpretations and defenses of Mormon doctrine […]
[…] written for non-Mormons and Mormons alike, focusing on what is distinctive and culturally significant about this growing American movement” (xi). They know their task is a tall one, for “no religion in American history […]
[…] Mormondom that women are more mystical and spiritual than men. This familiar idea, still given lip service today, probably did not originate with Tullidge, but let us consider his analysis. He sets up the […]
[…] to the Cavalry at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, while Custer was there. His hands smooth the stock, and he carefully points out the cartouche on the side. With obvious pride he tells me, […]
[…] Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small and likely unique (3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) 39-page pamphlet titled, “Om Mormonerne” (About the Mormons), by […]