Excavating Myself
April 25, 2018[…] of the reader’s own, may work a miracle in him—may even drive him to go out and buy your next book. As William Butler Yeats says, All sounds, all colors, all forms, either because […]
[…] of the reader’s own, may work a miracle in him—may even drive him to go out and buy your next book. As William Butler Yeats says, All sounds, all colors, all forms, either because […]
[…] the men failed to conserve their wheat because “their wives and daughters want the proceeds … to buy hats and bonnets,” Brigham Young called Emmeline B. Wells and the women to store grain. Sister […]
[…] On Friday he ran out of paint and had to drive a hundred miles into Gallup to buy more. The trip cost him half a day, three beams. Saturday morning when he stepped inside […]
[…] classified as theological apologetics. Many defenses of the LDS faith have challenged the core thesis of Evangelical counter-Mormonism that Mormons are not Christians. Some may think that the Mormon argument has been summarized astutely […]
[…] that they love the writing and the stories, but they just don’t have a clue who would buy them. As I stand with my arms stretched out toward both my old world of Mormonism […]
In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the […]
[…] is, stuck in the earthly realm, waiting—for what?—a pardon maybe, or someone to understand. Dancing. Maisie doesn’t buy any of these versions, staring at the bark of the tree by the looming gates of […]
[…] of the dreaded anthropomorphism of the Old Testament in this passage. Fretheim observes that such readings “ buy us an absolute form of omniscience at the price of placing the integrity of the text and […]
In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president […]
[…] a look like that. “Well, okay,” I said. We were almost there anyway. “Six million bucks will buy a bunch of speeding tickets, I suppose.” “Yes, it will,” Bobbie agreed, and he pushed the […]