[…] accepted—a position at Indiana University. Six months later, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, and Tulane shut down for an extended period. If Kyle had accepted that job, we likely would have been displaced indefinitely […]
So there’s my sort-of-neighbor big Bo, who despite owning two rock-solid Scandinavian names including, yes, Bo, doesn’t exactly seem to have things rock-solidly together.
[…] the listeners feel that the speaker was addressing them individually.A significant example of this is Exodus 19:4– 6, where the Lord speaks to Israel with ye, reminding them of how he delivered them from […]
[…] Virgin Mary is based on the Egyptian goddess Isis. The figure of Satan comes from the Zoroastrian counter-deity Ahriman. Much of the proverbial wisdom that Matthew puts into the mouth of Jesus comes from […]
What Beatrice said of Dante might well apply to Susan Elizabeth Howe’s latest collection of poetry, titled Salt. The observation was fictional, served up in an obscure but brilliant nineteenth-century book, Classical Conversations by […]
[…] asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk […]
[…] in Vermont, not New York, and the temple in Ohio was never used for marriage sealings ( 6); Martha Heywood was the third, not second, wife of Joseph Heywood (34, photo); and an Illinois […]
[…] meaningfully at Malcolm. Uinta Grocery and Sport was still open . . . if anyone needed to buy a particular something. And maybe some ammo. After his wife slumped snoring against his shoulder, Jake […]
[…] out (more convalescing), and decided to move to Hawaii. Plans for the house we were going to buy fell through, and the thermostat in the house we lived in broke and kept randomly getting […]
[…] her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation of the Provo Tabernacle as a temple have […]