[…] memorable and significant passage, finding in the absence of their symbolic armor an opportunity to engage the world directly in a way she has not done before. Megan never leaves her church, but she […]
In the May 1986 Mormon History Association meetings, a panel of historians and archivists explored the impact of the Mark Hofmann documents on the LDS and RLDS churches and views of their common origin. […]
[…] All documents are transcribed as written, faithful to the original spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Jessee offers an English translation alongside item eight, the one document written in German. Admirable annotation provides additional background information, […]
He hung me next to the load of dripping clothes. I was just a child! Couldn’t walk! Couldn’t talk! Too frozen stiff to cry! But strong enough to clench my monkey fists around the […]
When the arduous season conies, again, unexpectedly, air rushes through needled trees causing a sudden shift of time, a shift of light:
[…] myth in Den mark. When Poll was recalled from his mission in Germany on the eve of World War II, he stopped in Denmark and spoke in a Danish branch. Because he spoke in […]
[…] law and nature. This admirable system has continued to foster the growth of the Church throughout the world. Cooper presents his theory reasonably, clearly, and thoroughly. He does, however, remark troublingly that “although various […]
[…] monotony can be relieved by new courtships and matrimonial engagements, which are the sweetest things in the world to you when new” (Angus took two additional wives in Martha’s absence) (p. 27). Each bitter […]
In the chapel, In the straightbacked Ache of the pew, We held them—lap toys
Hunched over and rocking a little, he answered the president in stutters, and I wrote it all down in the ledger— the girl’s name, how many times, my pen touching