The Black Door
April 18, 2018[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a woefully inadequate diet. Nigeria was not in such dire straits when we were there. You could buy Americantype food at the markets. Since, the drought has wreaked havoc there, too. On the city […]
[…] irritations. Depression seldom plagues me. I’m too busy trying to be productive by setting my life in order and managing Frank’s estate so that I’ll have the money to pay for his care and […]