[…] smartphone in one pew as a 30-something white woman across the aisle taps away on her iPad.” Click to read the whole CNN Belief Blog article With ‘I’m a Mormon’ campaign, church counters lily-white image.
Dialogue 51. 3 (Fall 2018): 193–200 After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked […]
[…] in his chair and asked what he could do for him. Brother Fournier turned the manila envelope over and removed its contents to his lap. The sheaf looked like the old family group sheets […]
[…] up from the open suitcase on my bed, half full of the sixty rare bootlegs I’d amassed over the last two years. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, The Doors—all bands I’d loved in high […]
Although courtroom dramas can be entertaining, providing a formula for introducing new information through surprise witnesses or new evidence, simple procedurals can grow tired. An antidote is a realistic courtroom novel, where inner change and […]
[…] of original sin, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that humans “will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.”Unlike the Lutheran simul justus et peccator, wherein human beings […]
[…] (see capitalist); (4) a devotee of ephemera (see nudist); (5) one who privileges ephemera (see nepotist); ( 6) a scientist whose subject is ephemera (see mycologist). What follows is a lecture on three samples […]
[…] that every part of the Church as it is expressed through the diverse cultures abroad are vital for its proper functioning. Bonhoeffer enlivens this image by suggesting that “Christ exists as community,”and to my […]
[…] in Mormonism— “a feminism that is about ‘cooperation and compassion.’” Fresh Courage Take is a positive motto for a challenging task, one modelled by Mother Eve—“to act for ourselves instead of being acted upon.” […]
[…] 2005 commencement speech, the late novelist David Foster Wallace provided an unexpectedly frank description of American adulthood for the recent graduates of Kenyon College. Listing painfully familiar annoyances associated with what he calls the […]