Keepsakes
March 28, 2018[…] next world, but I knew they were aching to ask me what I was going to do now that she was gone. When would I marry? Would I be Brother Joe Cardon’s fifth wife? […]
[…] next world, but I knew they were aching to ask me what I was going to do now that she was gone. When would I marry? Would I be Brother Joe Cardon’s fifth wife? […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87</i><br>Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
[…] a 1933 address, Elder Glenn L. Pace asked the question, “Faced with ever louder cries for help from the world, how do we determine where to focus our efforts?” This essay asks a related […]
As a pacifist for my entire adult life, I find the DIALOGUE call for papers too inviting to ignore. During the Vietnam War thirty-five years ago, I came to grips with what pacifism requires […]
[…] gone into the garage to retrieve or why she went back to find it again after the call came. Their stake president had laid out the facts as he had learned them himself from […]
[…] the Christian West today, we are far too sophisticated to erect idols of wood or stone and call them our gods. We know that such an activity no longer has credibility. In our intellectual […]
[…] this was the first time I had the fear of God in me. Is that what you call it? Fear? I can’t call it respect or awe; those seem passive nouns. I need something […]
[…] the lives of individuals and societies, tragedies befall, the comforts of routine and the anodyne of affluence cease to satisfy, and people are at length obliged to look for what supports life at its foundations.
[…] visited Colorado City, Arizona, on January 2, 1988, and talked my way into some friendships which continue to this day. FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs, his father Rulon Jeffs, former Colorado City mayor Dan Barlow, […]
The study of churches and religious movements is especially prone to the issues of bias and selective presentation due to researcher position and organizational politics. Like many other religions, Mormonism as an object of […]