[…] and power of God,” the translation of ancient records written in an unknown language and rendered into English, not by a translator who knows both languages, but by a seer who by the “gift […]
Hugh Nibley lives in a world of serendipity. As his son-in-law and intended biographer, I have discovered that, time and time again, he has miraculously avoided some catastrophe or dropped in on some fortunate […]
[…] one of our own, whose poems I believe stand among the finest. Some of these poems I read when they were published ten or more years ago; one, “Love Song at the End of […]
[…] Julie and her parents experience in El Salvador the reality that “we Gringos see on the 6:00 news: that world of wars and quakes and starvation and little brown people with desperate eyes who were […]
[…] very good reasons. They protect and maintain our psychic and physiologic integrity through time. For instance, the breaking of a taboo in the matter of abortion has proved to have devastating emotional consequences even […]
[…] the church, and if it is worthy to be the rock that will sweep through the world breaking down all other kingdoms before it and bringing man’s will back into line with that of […]
[…] in Mormon scriptures. B. H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Deity (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News, 1908), pp. 95-96. Neal A. Maxwell. All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience (Salt Lake City: […]
[…] study of a force outside the rules of science, but that it was really something tremendous, a breaking down of the walls between two worlds, a direct undeniable message from beyond, a call of […]
[…] more: * “ineffability/’ or extreme difficulty to find words apt to convey the NDE; * “hearing the news,” hearing doctors pronouncing the experiencer “dead”; * initial “feelings of peace and quiet”; * then a […]
[…] Shannon, right?” “Carolyn,” Norman corrected, “and funny you ask. We’re getting married.” “That poor girl,” Erica said, breaking her bored silence. She thumbed through a Cosmopolitan and yawned. “She’s always so sarcastic in the […]