[…] constitutional privileges as members of society,” their claim that the “realm of religion is a wholly separate order of life untouchable by civil rights .. . is a double standard . . . that […]
[…] and began digging into local and national problems. I read extensively, attended numerous press conferences and chewed over current events and public issues. The work was heavy and sometimes bewildering. As Bennett was often […]
Late in the summer of 1833 one Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, recently excommunicated from the Mormon church for “unchristianlike” conduct toward some of the sisters, learned of a manuscript written some twenty years before by […]
<i>Dialogue 11.1 (Spring 1978): 58–76</i><br>During the spring of 1977, Utah’s two major newspapers began their coverage of what was to become one of the hottest political controversies of the year: the Utah Women’s Conference […]
[…] enterprise in America principally as an effort to build the kingdom of God on earth (the new order for all ages.) Mormonism presented “a distillation of what is peculiarly American in America.” From Mormon […]
[…] aesthetic dimension deserves attention. The reader must bring his or her best reading skills to autobiographies in order to appreciate their literary depth: he must be sensitive to image and allusion; he must watch […]
[…] want for herself, what more could any man want for his wife . . . ?” In order to resolve the dilemma thus confronting them, these uneasy sister Saints would again turn anxiously to […]
[…] Jesus as a super-salesman; and, in an age of science, God “is a God of law and order” (Millican, 1931), a Great Scientist, moving about in his cosmic laboratory, his experiment to perform. A […]
[…] a quick answer, I could pick up the phone, and he could give an answer in short order. And they were usually pertinent answers. Sometimes he’d give verification based on his own personal experience […]
[…] In an interview (N. Y. Times, Nov. 4,1977), French said that she adopted this split narrator in order to present the experiences of an ordinary woman, with whom her readers can identify, and to […]