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[…] Smith was at best a scoundrel,” he observed, “one still must account for the Book of Mormon.”[ 6] Indeed, the book’s religious appeal—its defense of God, Jesus Christ, and spiritual gifts, and its call […]
[…] in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. No state shall violate the equal rights of conscience.”[ 3] To Madison, the central feature of the civil right was the conscience—the morality source—the something that […]
[…] riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.”[ 6] Freud goes on, in a rare instance of willingness to admit his own fallibility, to discuss […]
[…] sustained her in a one-woman resistance movement against the Mormon hegemony of her happy family, she searches for something else to give meaning to her life. Living as a thirty-year-old, single, alcohol-using, sexually active […]
[…] from the book, is “on another world, not unlike our own, about two thou sand years ago.”[ 6] The strange and exotic pre-technological cultures which Tathea visits in vision or in person vaguely suggest […]
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[…] Men in Trees,” the title story in the collection, is narrated by a character named Bobby “Best Buy” (BB) Brooks, a man who owns an outdoor advertising company in Las Vegas. He’s just turned […]
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[…] was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal […]