[…] was one woman, then pregnant with her third child, who expressed decided approval of the speech: “The world has seduced us away from our children,” she said. “We needed this strong reminder to return […]
[…] leave me here; take me with you.” But she went alone and left me to face the world without her—a world from which the focus of meaning had gone. My reason for doing everything […]
[…] are unable to give up our positions of power, our titles, our honors and recognition from the world or the Church. And who can blame us? We believe we have earned it all. We […]
[…] and do, laud imperialistic, authoritarian slave societies. The scholarship of antiquity is often removed from the real world, hygienically free of value judgments. Of the value judgments, that is, of the voiceless masses, the […]
[…] stories will be remembered longer. Why? Because they grow out of and support many Mormons’ beliefs, their world view. This essay grows out of four observations we have made regarding the way Mormons tell […]
[…] by Christ and of the power God has granted his children to sanctify themselves by overcoming the world. In such a reality Latter-day Saints live, move, and have their being; it is their meat […]
[…] room, they hovered around me talking in whispers about Mama’s eternal reward and happiness in the next world, but I knew they were aching to ask me what I was going to do now […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 1–18 Well, I was raised in a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
[…] it’d never come to actual tears. Now, he just lay there, crying like the end of the world. “Bobbie,” I said. “Where’s that ring you bought me, huh?” I could tell the crying embarrassed […]
[…] mothers cannot imagine what it is like not to know the woman who brought you into the world.[18] An adopted baby “wants its own mother, and can only perceive of her disappearance as abandonment. […]