[…] “The pages gave off drumbeats” (65). The Mormon boy is “pulled .. . away, off into a world of wide skies and hot mesas” as he scans “the designs, the drawings, even the scribblings” […]
[…] makes horses hard and tough so they do little sweating while working.” He commended me for my search for words and the right ex pression. My ongoing search, much like his for words to […]
[…] the greater Clair’s suffering, chasms of it for a girl who had not been born into this world, but rather cast down in it.. . cast down, no kin, and half her face flayed […]
[…] religions in the United States, and since it has achieved a large number of adherents throughout the world, it is properly called a Chris tian church. If Mormons did not believe in the atonement […]
The nineteenth century saw the rise and fall of many “crusades” that have been painstakingly examined by scholars, including abolition, temperance, and nativism. Yet the equally important campaigns to eradicate polygamy and stem […]
In winter, you get onto the train to Moscow at dusk or at first dark. From the Tallinn train station, you can almost see the lights of the harbor. The train station, though, smells […]
[…] church” began out of op position to polygamy, a social practice that is reviled in the western world. Imagine that his mother and brother are publicly committed to the proposition that his father, the […]
[…] her family together after the death of their son. All these situations add up to one complex world for a young writer to tackle. And Van Wagoner tackles it competently. Dancing Naked is an […]
[…] church.” For a minute, Carma realizes, Natalie has forgotten her. Then she remembers and laughs nervously. “Their world is so different from the world I grew up in.” Carma lowers herself into her seat. […]
[…] “5 Kinds of Mormons.” It offered the theory that of all the millions of Mormons in the world, there were only five basic types: liberal, genuine, conservative, orthodox, and Nazi. As I recall it […]