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March 23, 2018[…] When I married Kyle, I even wondered if she was jealous. Kyle’s latest romantic gesture was to buy us two one-way tickets to Australia. A few weeks after I had Stella, he came bursting […]
[…] When I married Kyle, I even wondered if she was jealous. Kyle’s latest romantic gesture was to buy us two one-way tickets to Australia. A few weeks after I had Stella, he came bursting […]
[…] ungrounded. I spin course by stars I cannot see and trust in winds I do not control. Over the green I soar, in accord with a finely drawn yet constantly changing map in my […]
Looking out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I experience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there […]
[…] always agree with its arguments. In it, BYU German professor Alan Keele mines German literature and drama for what he calls the supernal: specifically, for narratives that echo LDS concepts of preexistence, eternal marriage […]
Driving from Hollister to Santa Cruz late morning, I stop at San Juan Bautista to grab a sandwich. All the signs point toward the Mission, so I keep driving. Brown-skinned Mexican kids swirl around […]
[…] be normal?” he scrawled in rough but legible script, “Why should I be Dick and not Tito?”[1] 6. I’m remembering a comment of John Gardner, a now-retired BYU physics professor who said to me […]
[…] human speech and writing reflect humankind’s “lost and fallen state” and is therefore fallible (1 Ne. 10: 6). In such passages, language itself becomes an important feature of the encumbering web of confusion and […]
[…] 90-106, and 107-50. Each concludes with a doxology or praising verse (Pss. 41:13; 72:18-19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1- 6).[1] Many of the psalms within each book have been carefully placed with nearby psalms according to […]
[…] wish to really discover who one’s partner is on many levels. Much like the quip, “Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure makes a good down payment,” sexual interest alone does not create a […]
[…] this continent” (Dan Vogel, ed., Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols. [Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998-2003], 1:496). 3. Lorenzo Saunders’s 1884 interview. Saunders said that Joseph told him about the revelation, the plates, and […]