[…] ghost. The heavenly visions and messages of angels, etc., contained in Mormon books, were after-thoughts, revised to order. The significance of the phrase “that bleeding ghost” will be discussed later. Earlier we said that, […]
[…] conversation with Emmylou Coronado, a shy funda mentalist girl who designs a home for her polygamous future online: “I did it on the Internet, according to the Principle” (325). Krakauer pays particular attention to […]
[…] to regulate marriage and define marriage as only the union between one man and one woman, in order to outlaw the Mormon practice of polygamy. Today, a century later, an effort to amend the […]
[…] Pratt and Rulon S. Wells were sent to open missionary work in Argentina. They arrived on December 6, 1925; but by April 1926, missionaries had moved their efforts from the small German group to […]
[…] all this fantasizing about whitebread movie stars. I don’t think God really wants us to lie in order to make people think we’re “normal,” but Mormon culture sure expects us to. It’s not like […]
[…] using the standing urinal, not realizing that one did not have to pull down one’s pants in order to use it, though the people waiting in line may have understood that principle. But that […]
[…] take precedence over sources composed later on (48). Applying these standards, Ashurst-McGee analyzes primary sources in chronological order. Huggins, in contrast, ignores these standards and misses key documents. A prime example is the Willard […]
[…] of them, living so close together. “Hey!” one of the boys yells. “She’s here!” They all run over to Mary, stop a couple yards away. One light-haired ambassador continues closer. He is wearing smears […]
[…] the justice of God; for it is requisite that all things should be restored to their proper order. . . . And it is requisite with the justice of God that men should be […]
[…] through a twenty-first-century lens. The unsigned introduction, presumably written by the editors for this printing, flops all over itself to establish a Mormon context for Evans, while his manuscript makes but two mentions of […]