[…] a daffy academic I call “The Psychologist” who utters hopeless nonsense and begins thusly: The Psychologist In order to fully account for Joseph Smith, one must apply the precise and methodical tools of science. […]
[…] let me ask the saints of the last days, what kind of people must you be, in order that you may accomplish so great a work?” How was Zion, he asked, “to become the […]
This paper will examine the vision or purported vision of the angel Moroni to Joseph Smith on the night of 21-22 September 1823, announcing the location of the gold plates containing the Book of […]
[…] life, but also on her relationships with other women in Orderville, a town which followed the United Order. In the third chapter, Brady details Mary’s activities as a midwife and healer and discusses the metaphor […]
[…] it through shocking, coarse rollicking comedy. Add to this the vision of Roth at war with himself over his own cultural Jewishness and you have an explosive mix: the perversely entertaining spectacle of a […]
[…] The county had to bury these men. In the bigger jungles the hobos organized committees to keep order. Men who preyed on other hobos were called wolves. At seventeen David was tall and thin […]
[…] had plenty of warning; you knew you had to get sealed to Jan in the temple in order to have her here; as it is, you have to go off with that bunch of […]
[…] of the sinner’s own blood—as a “literal and terrible reality” in Brigham Young’s world (p. 51). In order to fathom the horrors committed at Mountain Meadows, readers are asked to understand that blood atonement […]
[…] Say he had a consulting job near our home and arrived without her. How would that go over? He might tell the kids that because Grandma was delicate or getting along in years, he […]
[…] assistance is included. No food staple aid is provided. There is no requirement of spousal separation in order to qualify for benefits. U.S. Welfare and the WHO “minimum-intervention package” are completely different. By far […]