[…] been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so on. Should we wonder that today’s high literary circles ignore it?
[…] neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me ; for I have found my sheep that was lost” (v. 6). Jesus then shows that this joy is an earthly reflection of heaven: “Just so, I tell […]
[…] I also like the young, the angry, and the obnoxious. Especially to dance with. In 2 Samuel 6, we get this story: David’s first wife, Michal, sees him dancing in the street in celebration […]
[…] for the entire church, and for all in the world who will receive it (see D&C 43: 3-7). We can see this at work in the establishment of the doctrine of vicarious redemption through the […]
[…] Bookcraft, 1960), 261-62, emphasis added. Thomas J. Fyans, “The Lamanite Must Rise in Majesty and Power,” Ensign 6 (May 1976): 12-13; Jerry Jacobs, “The Church has Divine Mandate to Teach Gospel to Indians,” Church […]
Halfway between here and Oregon, the Lighthouse Bookstore opens along some residential street we browse unwittingly when reading after dark, where the words and road signs blur and the sky clouds up and thunders.
[…] reason and revelation are intended to mark a division between two modes of learning. The position is for the most part uniform: one can learn things by reason or by revelation, but when the […]
[…] examines the complicated life of the missionary in Bolivia. The stories in themselves are a reason to buy the book. The myths and stories differ from one another, yet in the telling become contoured […]
[…] the Clayton journals simply because the major portion of this particular volume, from 10 December 1845 to 6 January 1846, is in Clayton’s handwriting. Anyone who has studied the keeping of journals in church […]
[…] should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the Vine, of your own make” (89:5- 6). These verses have qualities of poetic jazz. In the early days of the Utah church Brigham […]