[…] 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 […]
[…] from the book, is “on another world, not unlike our own, about two thou sand years ago.”[ 6] The strange and exotic pre-technological cultures which Tathea visits in vision or in person vaguely suggest […]
[…] 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 […]
Dialogue 33. 3 (Fall 2000): 137–151 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 […]
[…] admitted that after Joseph Smith’s death some changes were made in the official record “for prudential reasons.”[ 6] Censorship has severely tarnished Sidney Rigdon’s historical image. Contrary to the official Mormon view, for example, […]