[…] identify what could strengthen families and help kids be more resilient. Their conclusion: “The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: develop a strong family narrative.”
[…] atheist for years before a conversion at age eighteen, and I’d managed to keep myself separated from much of folk Mormon belief, even as my family and I had been supported by wonderful Mormon […]
[…] not attempt to kill children. Period. Given the fact that one should not kill children (period), how can we encounter the story of Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac? First, we need to go past […]
[…] to various gods and poling a boat; the second register shows him reaping grain and driving the cattle who are treading out the grain; the third register shows him plowing; and the bottom register […]
[…] richness of the human experience. The separation of mind from body, spirit from matter, subject from object can be subsumed under the broader paradigm of myth/history. Only occasionally in Western thought have the worlds […]
[…] never considered that alternative nor delaying my departure. Apparently I’m determined to take Ireland any way I can, even on crutches. SEPTEMBER 1983: Dublin is more charming than I expected. I feel comfortable and […]
[…] look at the final result with the cerebral knowledge that it is done as well as you can do it and the sickening suspicion in the pit of your stomach that it’s lousy—without also […]
[…] religion” clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or […]
[…] the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as Pope John Paul of today’s Catholic Church has done, visiting places and lands where the […]
[…] why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his words “worthy to build God’s kingdom.”