[…] I was no older than fourteen—I received a special gift from my grandparents. They knew I liked to read. In fact, they knew that I read a lot. I was a regular patron of […]
[…] In another story from Turning Hearts, “Birthday Gift,” a father rejects the puppy his children and wife buy him for his birthday because of un resolved guilt and grief about Suzy, a family dog […]
[…] Josh. 8:31-34 identifies the “book of the torah” as the “torah of Moses” (see also Josh. 23: 6; 1 Kgs. 2:3; 2 Kgs. 14:6, 23:25). “Torah of Moses” most likely refers to the book […]
[…] changed as much as has age at marriage so that an increasing proportion of children are born to single parents. At the same time, marriages have become much less stable so that adults are spending […]
Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the […]
[…] Fiction,” Improvement Era 1 (January 1893): 186-188; B. H. Roberts, “Legitimate Fiction,” Contributor 10 (Feb. 1889): 135- 6. On Mormon economic self-reliance see Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the […]
[…] thought in what her husband was doing while he was away from her” (Van Wagoner 1986, 102— 3). Diaries, letters, and reminiscences of polygynous wives and children reveal that regular down-playing of the romantic […]
[…] several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal government, which included confiscation and misuse of […]
[…] birth to my first child, and finally my contractions are three minutes apart. My eyes wander vaguely over the smooth checked pattern of the floors as they whiz by and, counter to all birthing […]
[…] someone in the next town to refine my repairs,” C.J. said. After a first day of 47. 3 miles, we finally limped into the tiny burg of Briggsdale. Sam and Charity, two kids on […]