[…] tradition counted for nothing, and a man could work out a whole new destiny in the New World, not only through possession of a universally available priesthood, but through direct communication with God, establishing […]
[…] this assignment. In truth, most of the men were happy to go since digging gold was back- breaking work, and they had also experienced much sickness in recent months. “The turn of things was […]
[…] I see them from the perspective of growing up Mormon in small-town Utah. In those years before World War II, the red rock mountains of the Pavant Range that ringed Sevier Valley circumscribed our […]
[…] ability. She laughed at his quickness and told him he was the best protector in all the world. After all, with his whip he could move the oxen, even when they didn’t want to […]
[…] ever imagined I would. I have seen it even in my own nature. I look at the world now with mature eyes — a mother’s eyes — no longer innocent, no longer in secure. […]
Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1990): 114–121 Lehr discussed the journey undertaken by Charles O. Card to move to Canada and preserve polygamy, before the First Manifesto during a time that members were being hunted down […]
[…] the preface to The Haunted Fifties by I. F. Stone: “If there is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, it is the willingness to obey.” Satan would be […]
[…] boys alike crawled up and down their trunks. The Woodward School was the center of our young world with its mysterious bell tower that never once sounded, old inky blackboards, and well carved benches […]
[…] she is, in her own mind, not a victim but a wife, loved and valued, and the world seems safer. She erects defenses by noticing another in a worse situation. “If he ever did […]
[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]