The Body of the Lord’s Fair Night
April 3, 2018[…] slap. Clair ducked behind the steps as Brother Pratt walked toward the dance. He called back, “Courtship’s over, Sofie. I’ll tell your pa when I see him in the field.” She waited for Sofie […]
[…] slap. Clair ducked behind the steps as Brother Pratt walked toward the dance. He called back, “Courtship’s over, Sofie. I’ll tell your pa when I see him in the field.” She waited for Sofie […]
[…] who helped President Moyle energize the missionary program, notes that he was “stubborn” and sometimes “went rough-shod over people.” Nathan Eldon Tanner, who moved into the First Presidency on the death of Henry Moyle, […]
[…] all so bad, after all. The batter for the pancakes was easy to make and we could buy margarine or jam, but the maple syrup was a different story. Most of the time we […]
[…] ritual parade of women would express their eternal gratitude for all the wonderful crap their husbands could buy them. Laurie never expressed such gratitude. She would just thank God for her testimony and children […]
[…] as soon as the earth work between the head of the canal and the Torrey Ward (some 6 miles) is entirely completed; the Church to receive $1,000 in capital stock of the Center Irrigation […]
[…] revelation declares “it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment” (D&C 19: 6), explaining that the terms “eternal punishment” and “endless punishment” simply mean “God’s punishment,” that “eternal” and […]
[…] punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul 3. Aspiring, moral agents assume a degree of freedom even while claiming accountability to existing standards. Even […]
[…] 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 […]