[…] chapels—would be achieved. Especially valuable in Tullis’s book are two chapters on current conditions. The generation since World War II has seen in credible growth as Church membership in Mexico climbed from several thousand […]
The place they put him seemed extravagant — Sprawling flowers, hovering crowd, artificial grass To cover up plain dirt. The coffin shone, wood lustrous as the new organ
Sisters nod and smile, inclining intimately toward her in the crowded room. Years of testimonies shared and friendships deified linger in the worn cushions and heavy curtains. She brushes jostling shoulders, turns and feels
[…] spots by thread, a delicate patchwork of veiny fabrics. I imagine, when I talk to him on the telephone, his physical presence. I can hear his breathing in the brief pauses before he answers […]
[…] Saint parent who has sent a son or daughter on a mission or otherwise out into the world with the direction, ‘I would rather have you come back home in a pine box with […]
[…] baptism into the Mormon Church was the most significant event noted. Underwood examines “The Religious Milieu of English Mormonism” by illustrating the context in which religion functioned at the beginning of Victoria’s reign. The […]
Nerved sparks, the Perseids tonight, wincing out over Loafer Father, you taught me to name these — each streak of fire
[…] explains in her introduction, this unusual collection of verse represents “an attempt to return old women to the circle, to the continuum of women and of life” (p. viii), and its rich and convincing […]
[…] hierarchy, that of General Authority, he did serve on the Council of Fifty, which had hopes of world government. He discussed all of these activities very openly in his journals. George Smith’s careful and […]
Readers of L. Kay Gillespie’s exposition about Utah’s unforgiven should find it thought-provoking—at times, disturbingly so. The picture he paints here is of Utah’s darkest side: the deliberate brutishness and ugliness on both sides […]