Maisie Prayed
April 2, 2018[…] is, stuck in the earthly realm, waiting—for what?—a pardon maybe, or someone to understand. Dancing. Maisie doesn’t buy any of these versions, staring at the bark of the tree by the looming gates of […]
[…] is, stuck in the earthly realm, waiting—for what?—a pardon maybe, or someone to understand. Dancing. Maisie doesn’t buy any of these versions, staring at the bark of the tree by the looming gates of […]
[…] of the dreaded anthropomorphism of the Old Testament in this passage. Fretheim observes that such readings “ buy us an absolute form of omniscience at the price of placing the integrity of the text and […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]