[…] 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, […]
[…] not pass from the scene without leaving some traces in the records and publications of the period.”[ 6] Walters points out that in the first published version of the vision in 1834,[7] Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] tame olive-tree, which a man took and nourished in his vineyard” (Jacob 5:3). The beginning of chapter 6 also specifically discusses some aspects of the allegory, particularly the last section in which the good […]
[…] Both of my grandparents were stumpy little Welsh people, Grandma barely five feet tall, and Grandpa not over five and-a-half. Grandma had a New Year’s Day tradition which might have been a Welsh one: […]