[…] people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch […]
[…] . . . less pious, less judgmental, more aware of living in and negotiating with the secular world.” Armand would carry these attributes with him throughout his life straddling both the Church of Jesus […]
[…] were not alone on that point. “Indeed if women are ever to claim full participation in the world’s major religions, revelation must broaden its beam to reach well beyond Salt Lake City—to Canterbury and […]
[…] 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] 1980). For the purposes of this discussion, the beehive represents all aspects of Mormon involvement with the world, cultural as well as economic. The angel, in contrast, represents Mormonism’s other-worldly heritage, the spiritual and […]
In a now canonical article in 1912, “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage,” George Lyman Kittredge applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath (and her polemic and […]
[…] time even exhilarating, continually gratifying place as an “inside-outsider” in Zion. My first introduction to the Mormon world came in September 1960, when our family (my husband Tony, our eight-year-old son Stephen, and I) […]
[…] years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an altogether new frontier. Bogdanovka, although it is only 100 miles or so from the large regional capital city of Samara, is a world apart.
<i>Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):83–104</i><br>Thus, regardless of how one chooses to resolve the issues surrounding its origins, one must conclude that the Book of Mormon’s theological arguments should be seen as designed to be read […]