The bishop leaned toward her. “Sister Turner, unless you beat your ladies with baseball bats, you’re only in a forty-way tie for ward’s worst visiting teacher.” “But, I can’t sew blanket sleepers for every new baby, and cook dinner for every sick person! I’m not Janie.” Th...
one to Sister Mathews from their local Mormon ward. (Mormons call each other Sister or Brother.) To the terrorized Denise, that was the final nightmare. "Karen had called Sister Mathews because she felt she was starring to tall to pieces. Karen threatened to kill herself," Denase said, ...
I had been confident that I knew the LDS doctrine, the scriptures, the history, the prophets. Even after stepping out, I would have balked and bristled at the implication that inside those walls a cult was thriving. Or that my people were not Christians. I would have fought tooth and nai...