[…] 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 […]
[…] the battle for women’s rights may be lost in the church, but there is a whole wide world of political and social rights still to be won for women. She has shifted her energy […]
[…] news, I knew I was in deep trouble. Suddenly I, the biggest, most willing sisterhater in the world, found myself trapped by my own guile into going on a mission. In an effort to […]
This slim volume is intended by its publisher to inaugurate a series of monographs devoted to the study of the infamous 1857 massacre of over 100 emigrants by misguided Mormons and their Indian allies in southern Utah. The massacre was […]
[…] about himself as he lay in bed instead of watching cartoons on TV or shooting baskets through the hoop under the eaves. They didn’t have a garage, but they didn’t need one since they […]
[…] 130 B.C.E. The Book of Mormon further relates a personal ministry of Jesus Christ to these New World inhabitants. The prophets of these groups recorded their history on a series of metal plates. Around […]
What if the Resurrection were not pent for the vast reendowment of all flesh but occurred as if by chance, like birth (that miraculous appointment), and just as unnoticed. What if these were the terms?: