[…] intention of practicing polygamy, but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it. —Anthony Maitland Stenhouse So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to […]
[…] I’d created a sculpture of myself outside myself, a clone who was my personal representative to the world. She had groomed hair, was nice, kind, responsible, well-loved, obedient, and she tended home fires. The […]
[…] Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Kuwait) have “leavened” Canadian attitudes in general. Church members often react to war news with a kind of “millenialist anticipation,” an almost backhanded joy arising from the belief that we […]
[…] of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had […]
In a now canonical article in 1912, “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage,” George Lyman Kittredge applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath (and her polemic […]
[…] some money and get out of… and come for you.” But the only thing that made the news sting a little less to Mary was the promise of summer visits. And Mary’s promise to […]
When Orson Pratt, apostle and LDS Church historian, revised the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 at the direction of Brigham Young, he included Section 85 among some twenty-five other new sections. Section 85 is […]
Dialogue 46.2 (Spring 2016): 1–39 Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
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[…] earth “from a more exalted sphere”[3] with eyes that see “through a glass, darkly”[4] and perceive the world in terms of explicit separateness or opposites (what in Christian parlance we term “the Fall”), but […]