Excavating Myself
April 25, 2018[…] good person engages our admiration, but rarely our understanding. An aura of mystery colors the typical Mormon world. A boy raised on the streets learns early the harsh realities of life. He has no […]
[…] good person engages our admiration, but rarely our understanding. An aura of mystery colors the typical Mormon world. A boy raised on the streets learns early the harsh realities of life. He has no […]
[…] no right to listen to me. Even to myself I often seem to be off in another world, in another space, in another time—and if not really there, to at least wish I were. […]
[…] a legend before her retirement, called again. Would she? She would. Now she is on Monday’s noon news with a “Good Friends” feature, chatting over the fence of a home in the Marmalade District […]
<i>Dialogue 16.3 (Fall 1984): 69-76</i><br>Emma spent her remaining years far removed from the associates who had helped shape the events of that first decade of the Nauvoo period. Like those around her, she did […]
[…] faith is (Mormon) the Latter day Saints. We are living under capitalism and the wealth of the world is privately owned by individuals, . . . but this building is collectively owned by the […]
[…] had helped with a symposium as part of stake conference on “Youth and Religion in the Present World Crisis.” I wrote: “Our approach was analytic, which seemed to conflict somewhat with the dogmatic approach […]
<i>Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 33–76</i><br> Mauss encourages an openess about the temple to help better prepare future endowment holders and to create a better understanding among members and nonmembers.
[…] never been easy in the French Mission. Full-scale missionary work dated from the end of the First World War, yet in 1957, 130 missionaries baptized only 110 converts and a mere thirty of those […]
[…] best describe my marriage experience by addressing my comments to my husband. Dick, sometimes I think that the best times and the worst times of our marriage have nothing to do with our two […]
[…] right out and said that, but close enough: “You’re a very sweet girl, Tracy. We think the world of you—we really do, but . . .” What we really think you ought to do […]