Brattle Street Elegy: Not Different from My Home
March 17, 2018My wife led me to the news and to this website. We met while we were attending the ward in 2001. I share the sentiments of many who have left comments here. I clearly […]
My wife led me to the news and to this website. We met while we were attending the ward in 2001. I share the sentiments of many who have left comments here. I clearly […]
[…] have young Latter-day Saints put beeswax in their ears, as did Ulysses’s sailors, to shut out “the world,” Truman suggested that the gospel message really positions a better band in the front of the […]
HBO’s popular Big Love series and David Ebershoff’s bestselling novel The 19th Wife (New York: Random House, 2008), stand as evidence that polygamy remains a perennial topic of interest for Mormons and non-Mormons alike. […]
[…] overbearing and autocratic. The first was with Willard Richards, Watt’s temple-sealed adopted father, editor of the Deseret News, and second counselor to President Brigham Young. A twelve-day epistolary conflict between Watt and Richards in […]
[…] been to draw attention to the way in which the ideas that human beings develop about their world invariably reflect their own individual experience and social placing” (128). It is curious that they herald […]
[…] of his chisel, which hurt us so much, are what make us perfect. The suffering in this world is not the failure of God’s love for us; it is that love in action.”In other […]
Dialogue 43.4 (Winter 2010): 1–42 The purpose of this paper is to introduce a robust methodology that eliminates the guesswork in determining winding locations by visual inspection of crease marks or lacunae features, and […]
[…] own volition, will engage John McCormick and John Sillito’s essay on the 1913 International Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight. However, they have penned a lovely narrative piece of an ugly time; and […]
[…] that this is not an academic paper; there’s no bibliography. It is, rather, a personal reflection addressing the difficult questions of reconciling faith and the academy—many of which have already been raised today. I […]
[…] you about my faith journey and offer up some observations and possible conclusions. I’m going to speak the only way I know how: honestly and with complete candor. It means making myself vulnerable in […]