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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 46. 3 (Fall 2013): 106–141</i><br> Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number […]
[…] historian of the American West, who was recently president of the Mormon History Association. <div class=”mceTemp”> <em><strong>THE TOPIC: </strong></em> Over the decades, Richard Turley and William MacKinnon have researched and written extensively about Utah’s long, contentious […]