[…] and Women’s Voices a selection of diary excerpts with historical commentary, Sunbonnet Sisters sets out to tell the story of the young pioneer girl. As such it takes a refreshing introductory look aimed at […]
That fine white burst of bush blossom Has come again. Blast ing through the winter crust And scattering the afterbirth of spring,
The eyes of the beasts shine into my own. The archangel’s hair is on fire. I stumble through the mudprints of cows and ewes toward the damp side of the cave
1937 Christ through a troubled world drags his cross, Wishful that on this his birthday night Someone gentle toward his message might Offer him sanctuary. But in a lost Cause his back breaks. Eyes […]
The shop smelled of wood’s death-scent released, by the carpenter’s skill, in the spring breeze: nature spread across the afternoon
New grain, you are comely; Long, straight, supremely vernal. Standing in Earth’s sun Unashamed green, You sway.
[…] winter they had to borrow our hoard: seven dollars from me and five from my sister. Our days were the usual homemade loaves, peaches we’d bottled, our own half-beef in the locker,
[…] Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in this new podcast from Research […]
[…] William Clayton struggled as a disciple because he was a strict believer in perfection in an imperfect world. Possibly an alcoholic, Clayton seems to have continually punished himself for his failures. Called to be […]
That such a volume as this could be written at all is happy testimony to the development of a Mormon historiographical tradition. Its appearance at this late date, however—over a century and a half […]