From Three Jacks
March 27, 2018[…] me want to get smart. It made me think I could read books, adjust my posture, and buy the right shoes, be something other than the Jack Fixx I was. I said, “He’s out.” […]
[…] me want to get smart. It made me think I could read books, adjust my posture, and buy the right shoes, be something other than the Jack Fixx I was. I said, “He’s out.” […]
[…] Saudi Arabia wasn’t until the next day. If they needed food, why, Leila could go out and buy some. The purse her husband had entrusted Ismael to carry, filled with documents and a thick […]
[…] permanent virgin, in spite of several biblical references to Jesus’ brothers and sisters (Matt. 13:55-56; Mark 3:31, 6:3). Later she became a postpartum virgin, out of unease that she may have retained the physical […]
October 1954. I am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play […]
[…] Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) suggestions for how we might actually worship, or at least honor, Her in ways that should not be […]
[…] than anything else,” Benson wrote in 1962, “which added steel to my spine to fight it out for principle against the nearly overwhelming pressures of political expediency.” Second only to Flora was Reed, twenty-four […]
Many religious believers today are comfortable with the notion of an evolutionary process over many millions of years as God’s means for achieving the creation. In other words, they believe that, while God governed […]
In 1852, Heber C. Kimball delivered a funeral oration for Mary Fielding Smith, the sister-in-law of the martyred prophet and the wife of his brother Hyrum. Kimball described her as a devoted wife and […]
[…] again, moving and swirling, like thin traces of smoke in the air. “Power upon thee, my friend, over lives and deaths.” “You can’t do anything to me,” Hank said, hoping it was true. “You’re […]
[…] in the northeast.Huggins concluded that “Smith must have learned of the motif while helping his father dig for Kidd’s treasure and while studying Kidd’s life and lore as a boy.” Some Latter-day Saint scholars, however, […]