Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1966): 85–100 During the years of the Utah Territory, outsiders got appointed to the terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, […]
[…] such a campaign may have great practical experience, excellent ideas, and the most honorable intentions in the world, but since the operation is invariably so large and the organization is generally jury-rigged, breakdowns are […]
[…] in a bank for one year and then graduates from Utah State University with a B.A. in English. The third child in a family she describes as “five only children” because they were so […]
I suspect you’re less interested in such talk than Shakespeare and I. I’m twenty years closer to death than most of you, and poor Will is centuries gone. But you’re closer than you think. […]
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
[…] not what you’d expect from a Latin American woman. Her parents were German, immigrants who came before World War II to Tupambay. Johann Vogle, a carpenter, had become a prosperous building contractor. The two […]
[…] same phenomena, but his different lens of understanding (literalistic Biblical) led him to experience a radically different world from Darwin’s. When Darwin began publishing his findings soon after his return to England, Fitzroy felt […]
[…] corner of a room that Vermeer painted again and again, as if he might understand the whole world through one place seen completely. Then I hurried down the long hall, past the antique pianofortes, […]
[…] better and to shed light on regionalism’s influence on Mormon history. In the years between the two world wars, regionalism loomed large in American thought. Artists, novelists, poets, pundits, historians, social scientists, and the […]
This dialogue of anguished questioning and consolation has an intensely personal meaning to me. The 1980s were a decade that severely tested my faith in Heavenly Father and my commitment to the Church. Whatever […]