A House of Order
April 16, 2018[…] school and the city. As he plowed, planted, and harvested his land, turned his cattle out to feed on the mountain, he had been less and less able to think of their stay as […]
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Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
April 26, 2018Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.
“Take No Thought”
March 16, 2018[…] ye shall put on.” Shouldn’t we “take thought” for these things? No. This is a frank imperative. Feed and clothe yourself by feeding and clothing yourself, not by thinking about feeding and clothing yourself. […]
A Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Mark’s Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30)
October 26, 2018[…] house. Further, her retort teaches that one need not deprive the children of bread in order to feed the dogs—the dogs will be content with what the children drop. She boldly adapts Jesus’ parable […]
Flying in a Confined Space
March 23, 2018[…] change. Since I left on this trip—my first time away since her birth—she has allowed Mark to feed her a few meals. Don’t know why she lets him for some but not for all. […]
In a Better Country
March 19, 2018[…] to the end of the cul de sac and back. But instead of his perfunctory routine of feed and flee, he had lowered himself to one knee, running a hand gently along the spine […]
At the Cannery
March 18, 2018[…] I had an immature understanding of my religion and of Jesus Christ. He not only said, “ Feed my sheep” and provided fishes and loaves, but was a source of solace and salvation I […]
Dreams of Summer
March 16, 2018[…] one hour he is in class Monday through Thursday, we spend almost every waking moment together. I feed him his meals, spilling food on him with great regularity. Fastidious Daniel finds that annoying. I […]
Ghost Towns
March 16, 2018[…] and later, during the depression, miners out of work went singing door to door for donations to feed their families. At frequent town festivals, where bakers sold pastries and the locals set aside their […]
“The Blood of Every Beast”: Mormonism and the Question of the Animal
March 16, 2018[…] of the most important of these laws, he wrote in the unpublished essay “Irenicum,” was “not to feed on the flesh or drink the blood of a living animal, but to be mercifull even […]