Cure
April 13, 2018The white man is loud,
he is also blind.
His dreams are bad
and teach him nothing.
DiaBLOGue
Self-Blame and the Manifesto
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57
Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over time members started wondering if it was because of their own actions that polygamy was no longer a commandment.
The Virgin Mary Confronts Mary of Magdala
April 13, 2018Don’t say that.
I never called you whore.
It’s a dream word I never knew.
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 21–39
Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
“Almost Like Us”: The American Socialization of Australian Converts
April 13, 2018A few years ago I listened to a group of American missionaries who had just eaten an enormous meal at our table and were showing their appreciation by telling us how backward Australia is in…
How Could We Have Known
April 13, 2018that loneliness is like
the whole of the moon
rising in a sky so lucent,
the clouds cast shadows
From “Zion’s Attic” | Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis, eds., The Mormon Presence in Canada
April 13, 2018Latter-day Saints are an even smaller minority in Canada than they are in the United States. To put their numbers into perspective, if Canada were California (the populations are approximately equal), the Mormon community would…
Heloise and Abelard | Constance L. Lieber and John Sillito, eds., Letters from Exile, The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon
April 13, 2018One of the by-products of the federal crusade against plural marriage in late nineteenth-century Utah is the correspondence of separated spouses which dramatically records the personal impact of this volatile period in Mormon history. Because…
The Rise of the Church in Great Britain | Richard L. Jensen and Malcolm R. Thorp, eds., Mormons in Early Victorian Britain
April 13, 2018Mormons in Early Victorian Britain, volume 4 in the University of Utah’s Mormon Studies series, is a significant contribution to the understanding of Mormon history in both the United States and Great Britain. As the…
Humor and Pathos: Stories of the Mormon Diaspora | Neal Chandler, Benediction: A Book of Stories
April 13, 2018A late review has the advantage of calling a good book to the attention of any one who may have missed it the first time around, and of reaffirming what time has already proved—its lasting…