At Fifty-Nine
April 2, 2018[…] then that Sheehan was a beacon of calm ness, a point of reference for me, that the world was not entirely mad— particularly during a demanding final business stretch. And though not a runner, […]
[…] then that Sheehan was a beacon of calm ness, a point of reference for me, that the world was not entirely mad— particularly during a demanding final business stretch. And though not a runner, […]
[…] deranged immigrant had walked into the Family Research Center in Salt Lake City and started shooting. The world had turned suddenly sinister. We were just finishing our course of study, the Doctrine & Covenants, […]
[…] whispering attendants to my lifelong dialogues with Joseph. I had to remind myself that I see the world differently than I did forty years ago. I’d come on a long and tortured journey. Until […]
[…] In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
The growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has recently slowed in Japan, as elsewhere, adding to the decades-long challenge for the Church of a low activity rate within the […]
At home it was hot . . . days and days above a hundred. I could imagine the leaves of summer wilting in the afternoon heat. But that was so far away on the […]
Dialogue 41.2 (Summer 2009): 85–101 Hardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.
[…] early age. I think it was by reading novels from authors like Emilio Salgari who talked about the Middle East and Far East. He wrote a couple of Western novels, but most were in […]
[…] As Jack said, when you’re dead, you’re dead. 1899 When the bottom dropped out from under the world price for silver, Darby went down to Park City, Utah, where he heard the silver mines […]
[…] from all her worries into a land of eternal bliss, or skip all that to save the world by . . . by doing what? “I could delete the prayer from our systems.” “Not enough.” She shook […]