[…] why Joseph Smith might have asked for the wives of other men. In a public speech on 6 October 1861, Brigham Young discussed the ways “in which a woman might leave a man lawfully.” […]
[…] sustained her in a one-woman resistance movement against the Mormon hegemony of her happy family, she searches for something else to give meaning to her life. Living as a thirty-year-old, single, alcohol-using, sexually active […]
[…] de passage through humankind’s several estates, ala Nephi Anderson’s Added Upon, The Book of Abraham (especially chapter 3), or O. S. Card’s free adaptation (in his Homecoming series) of the Lehite wanderings, or—inevitably we […]
[…] be a lot of excitement for a small town.” “We could charge admission, Elsie. We’d get rich. Buy a new Ford pickup. People would pay to see him. They could talk to Dad and […]
[…] Men in Trees,” the title story in the collection, is narrated by a character named Bobby “Best Buy” (BB) Brooks, a man who owns an outdoor advertising company in Las Vegas. He’s just turned […]
[…] “I have a job in Anchorage,” said Allison. “Writing software.” “Writing software,” said Willy. “I need to buy a computer to track my finances.” “Willy, you don’t need a damn computer,” said Overalls. “You […]
[…] was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal […]
[…] it from where we stood. The new churchhouse was not two stories high with a peaked roof over its red brick walls and a pile of steps to climb to the whitewashed double doors […]
<i>Dialogue 33. 3 (Fall 2000): 137–151</i><br> Rees’s Fall 2000 artice is titled “”In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New […]
[…] millions of potential readers. This particular and somewhat older book, however, is of importance to Mormon scholarship over and above the issue of language access, for a couple of reasons: 1. German is an […]