[…] her. McCloud’s meticulous precision in re cording dates and putting the events of Ellis’s life in chronological order is admirable, yet she treats those events without regard to their relative importance. On the one […]
[…] Is it lawful to heal on the Sab bath, to save life or to lose it (Luke 6:1-10)? Latter-day Saints are taught to study and revere scriptures as the word of God, but they […]
[…] dark and didn’t talk much, moving silently in their long, dark skirts, except to call out an order now and then in a low voice with words we couldn’t understand. “Do you think they’re […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107 An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship […]
[…] me! I want to be assured of my position in God’s estimation. If polygamy is the Lord’s order, we must carry it out in spite of human laws and persecutions’ ” (1974, 105). Yet, […]
[…] a very different struggle than Clark examines but one that engages the similar paradox of freedom and order: a boy must learn to accept disappointment and limitation without losing passion and idealism. His father […]
A deacon offers the broken bread. Aware of awkward wait as bishop Receives the bread of ritual first, I take it up, thoughtless of blessing,
[…] with my grandparents. Soon afterwards, I had my first disappointment at Church functions. At Scout camp where Order of the Arrow candidates were to be chosen, all the other boys assumed that I would […]
Things just get worse. Which heavenly linoleum stripe Leads to universal Emergency? The resident angel could scour my soul.
[…] Dec. 1980). Regarding the “big bang” theory of the origin of the universe: “Did explosions ever bring order out of chaos, or do they produce chaos?” (17 Oct. 1981). One wonders if he really […]