[…] major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days are over now, and the Church is part of a major political presence in the world, no longer […]
[…] family. At our next meeting, they reported back on this family meeting. Initially, the doctor had gone over the medical issues one more time. The priest then explained gently to these parents that in […]
[…] We need something in this world that isn’t trying to teach us lessons or get us to buy a product, that isn’t self-helping us to death. All writing, fiction included, is, of course, loaded […]
[…] deserts justice. Every person who comes into the world is given the light of Christ (D&C 88: 6-7). “He that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter […]
Over the course of a lifetime, I have had occasion to give thought to the question of why I continue to be an active, committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] is why the book costs $35: I am not the target audience. Generally, the people who will buy this book are “average” Dialogue readers—those who, like me, remember Gene with fondness, but unlike me are […]
[…] and a devoted helpmeet to her husband; she accepts her role as “the example” in the stake over which her husband presides. Awaiting Paul’s return, Robert and Alice try to go about life as […]
The American-born Allan West has become widely respected for his pursuit of a traditional form in Japan. Raised in Washington, D.C., Allan served in the Okayama Japan mission during the early 1980s. In 1987, […]
[…] around me.” When he showed an interest in painting upon completing high school, his mother—a baker—traded bread for private art lessons from a local portrait painter, Martha Lower, to whom he acknowledges a great […]
[…] loved Florence. She realized this the day Florence took the soeurs to the coast so they could buy a bucketful of mussels, which they soaked in white wine without telling Soeur Paxton, who would […]