Soul-Making, or Is There Life Before Death?
April 18, 2018This not existing is despicable.” Such was the outcry of a man who i came to the painful realization that he was so immersed in and ab sorbed by a field of forces and influences…
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Lightning Barbs
April 18, 2018I’d ridden this way a hundred times,
Up Monday Town along the fence
Dividing wheat from perennial sage
Herding cattle to summer grazing
One Year
April 18, 2018The scene was written
In advance,
Rehearsed as often
As the days of waiting
Would allow.
The Only Divinely Authorized Plan for Financial Success in This Life or the Next
April 18, 2018Thelm, the man is standing in his own way. If only he would get the vision of this thing. . . . See the potential, the tremendous opportunities. If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders…
The Black Door
April 18, 2018Hyrum Black had three wives. All of the people up and down Tudor Avenue knew that. In fact, I suppose all of the people in Salt Lake City knew that there were polygamists among us,…
Exiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 108–116
Embry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.
Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107
An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own mom is doing, which determines whether or not when they are older they enter into a polygamous relationship.
Women’s Response to Plural Marriage
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98
Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83
Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to their own husband
Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom
April 18, 2018During its 1984 session the United States Senate fell eleven votes short of the two-thirds majority required to endorse a constitutional amendment allowing government-sponsored prayers in public schools (S. J. Res. 1983). This was the…