Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60
Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
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The Women of Fundamentalism: Short Creek, 1953
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 15–38
Bradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
You Heal
April 14, 2018One morning you wake
and everything works
and almost nothing hurts.
After seven months of returning
Things Happen
April 14, 2018Things happen. Early in the world you travel into them. One day
You rise without prayer in a far camp and silently hurry away.
Having slept under stars and still breathing the greyed fire,
Who would take time to suppose this the middle of a lifetime?
Nothing New Under the Sun | Mary Farrell Bednarowski, New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America
April 14, 2018While it is beyond the capability of any book to demonstrate the infinite capacity of human belief, there seems nevertheless to be little reason to doubt the existence of such infinitude, and Mary Farrell Bednarowski…
The Papers of the Prophet | Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Volume I, Autobiographical and Historical Writings
April 14, 2018It takes a meticulous person to edit historical documents. No amount of effort should be too much to obtain the stray fact, to check the transcription, the con text, and the details of an edited…
A Lot to Like | Eugene England and Dennis Clark, eds., Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems
April 14, 2018Harvest is a good title for this collection of twentieth-century Mormon poetry with its bounty, variety, and degrees of ripeness and appeal. One feels a generosity of spirit emanating from this aggregate, a poetic vision…
The Six-Buck Fortune
April 14, 2018I remember that day perfectly—every violet plum with its orange smudges, the rim of the huge blue canning kettle smeared with thick yellow slime and little tatters of purple peel. It was the day I…
The Chastity Gum
April 14, 2018It wasn’t like Sister Farley to chew gum. She took her stewardship over her little swarm of Beehive girls seriously, and normally she was the very soul of decorum, showing us by her dress and…
One of the Women
April 14, 2018One of the women inside me
cannot rejoice with anyone.
She stays in the shadows
bowing her head.
Her long hair has never been cut.