[…] life from the conception of the spiritual being by Heavenly Parents to the hope of creating a world for oneself in the eternities. This section uses immense illustration and humor to depict significant theological […]
In his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot writes that tradition “cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.”This has always underscored for me […]
[…] be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was a husband, then that must mean that I wanted to be a wife.”
[…] the traditional theological categories of cosmology, the nature of the divine, and theological anthropology in addressing the world as it is now rather than the intellectual categories of the world as it once was. […]
The world was divided into three. Three shards of sagebrush and sky. That’s how it looked to Emma as she blinked through the thick wooden wagon spokes next to her head. She winced at […]
[…] be strange to their children. Polygamy, pioneering, and folklore of the Three Nephites are disappearing from our world, and Mrs. Hunter records their last stirrings. Hers is a patriarchal society where women are retiring […]
[…] Maurine Whipple’s This is the Place to O’Dea’s The Mormons, Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World, and Flanders’s Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Several works on legal history dealing with polygamy and […]
[…] Brigham Young University Music Departments, he has been a nationally recognized composer for over three decades, prominent world-wide for over two. The Depression produced his greatest works. Two were prize-winners: the Quintet won the […]
[…] the problem of turning a desert frontier theocracy into a standard democratic American state. To the outside world the practice of polygamy came to be the symbol of the so-called Mormon rebellion, and it […]
[…] had developed the this-worldly meaning of sex more fully and had left its other-worldly meaning to the world of possibility. This he was unwilling to do. I respect his right to think as he […]