My Liberty Jail
April 13, 2018This 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 […]
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 […]
[…] wedding in 1924, my parents rented their living quarters, and when at last my father agreed to buy a house, he insisted it be one that they could buy outright with the $600 they […]
[…] New York without an overcoat. Not until two months later in freezing cold was he able to buy a heavy jacket. He had to spend his first wages on a gun to protect himself. […]
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For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s […]
[…] and Not as Partisans’: The Writing of Official History in the RLDS Church,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 6 (1986): 43-52; Paul M. Edwards, “The New Mormon History,” Saints’ Herald 133 (Nov. 1986): 13. As […]
I remember well the first time I met Wallace Stegner because I wanted so much to prove him wrong.
My text is a poem and a scripture since as I age I find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between beauty and truth.