The Dissonance of Absolution
March 21, 2018[…] since avoided contact with him. She adds that she knew I wasn’t that type of Mormon. We order orange chicken and lemon shrimp and laugh about work. I think everyone at the table realizes […]
[…] since avoided contact with him. She adds that she knew I wasn’t that type of Mormon. We order orange chicken and lemon shrimp and laugh about work. I think everyone at the table realizes […]
[…] In his own translation of John 1:1, Nibley illustrates how indispensable this concept was to the very order of things: “In the beginning was the Logos [counsel, discussion], and the Logos was in the […]
Over the course of a lifetime, I have had occasion to give thought to the question of why I continue to be an active, committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of […]
I float in the corner of the university diving pool. My legs, which are more muscular and dense than my torso, pull me down. Closing my eyes, I’m rocked by the wake from a […]
[…] 1989, eight missionaries and their new mission president, Wolfgang Paul, were driven from Hamburg, West Germany, to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). They expected a delay of several hours at the border but were […]
Acccording to republican purists of the Revolutionary generation, the values of commerce, which “fostered a love of gain, ostentatious living, and a desire for luxuries,” could be contrasted with those of agriculture, which encouraged […]
[…] Pacific, safe, and then what’s this? Hadn’t they paid their dues? My father drove back and forth over the pass that winter. Once, he hit and killed a young buck. He threw it in […]
[…] in random points and recognitions, Moving and brewing beneath your own hand. Respond to Word of God inside your mind: Call the involvement creation, as the eyes Of the Gods gaze infinity into finite forms.
[…] and what you could do with it—well, why wouldn’t you try something like this if it could buy you your dreams? What are your dreams, anyway? What do you want?” Ginni froze. No way […]
[…] and a devoted helpmeet to her husband; she accepts her role as “the example” in the stake over which her husband presides. Awaiting Paul’s return, Robert and Alice try to go about life as […]