[…] hand, kisses it in courtly fashion and repeats, without deviation, “How’s the sweetest little girl in the world?” I’ll also miss the nurses who care for my husband. Dedicated servants of the ill and […]
In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go home. […]
[…] is a conflict (Quinn 1985b). His splendid essay on authorized post-Manifesto marriages documents in painful detail the breaking of one truth against another (Quinn 1985a). I think of Nephi and his rebellious brothers—Nephi who […]
No husband summoned me to Koshi. BYU, Washington, D.C., and a mission president in Tokyo summoned me long before a husband. And even when it was a husband, he summoned me no farther than […]
[…] . . When these requirements . . . fail to match an individual’s unique vision of the world and his own experience, conflict begins to build immediately (p. 16). Kennedy goes on to suggest […]
[…] I cheerfully forego All else of happiness, to share With thee, in weal or woe. The world has smil’d upon me— I scorn its flattery; For naught but thy approving look, […]
[…] they may become. They see the valiant missionary who will one day share his testimony with the world and later become a righteous father who honors his priesthood. The inspired teacher sees pure and […]
[…] our sins. God who is sinless loved us while we were yet sinners. He loved the sinful world so much that he sent his own son into it to establish that each sinner is […]
[…] It was well written and suggested what a comprehensive treatment might be able to do. Then came World War II, and I became involved, first as an economist for the North Carolina Office of […]
[…] tragedies, more related to the very physicalness and fragility of having mortal bodies or living in a world of inflexible natural laws, tragedies not altogether caused by human behavior, that I cannot spiritually or […]