[…] her trips between floors, while staring only at the numbers above the elevator doors, Kören heard someone call her name. It was a dry, throaty growl, and said, “Hello, Kory.” Kören turned and blinked […]
[…] theology. “Written in Stone” deals with two critical issues for which much more physical evidence is available now than was available to Talmage: first, transitional forms in the fossil record, indicating changes of species; […]
[…] final stage is seen in the merging of terms: They are no longer wild “gentiles,” they are now the tame “House of Israel.” A similar pattern can be discerned in a broad analysis of […]
Many years ago Virginia Sorensen wrote me a prophetic letter. She had just read my article, “Through Immigrant Eyes: Utah History at the Grass Roots.” She sounded breathless: “For years and years/’ she wrote, “I […]
[…] American military physician recorded one such incident during the Vietnam conflict: About 3 P.M. there was a call on the wall phone set. It was from Graves Registration. “Dr. Parrish, we were washing down […]
[…] turned into a commitment instead,” but the marriage lasted only a few years. Reflecting on his painful and all-too-common experience, Scruton wrote, “Our years of cohabitation had disenchanted our first love, while offering no […]
[…] versions of the doctrine depend on different interpretations of governance. The strongest version of this doctrine comes from the Calvinists who assert that each and every event in the history of the world is […]
Mike Oborn, Song of Songs Robert M. Price, Reply to Professor Hamblin
[…] about the Mormons, for the reasons that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation” (94). Substitute “narrative” for “fiction,” and Stegner anticipates precisely the weakness of Krakauer’s […]
[…] same lens but that it’s possible to love each other anyway. Some conversations rise up unexpectedly and call us to attention: Hold a space for this. Our son Anders came upstairs one night, appalled […]