Woman Bathing | Authority
April 12, 2018She performs the persistent ritual of cleansing,
the splashing of water
upon her scarlet apple flesh
sullied with blood
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I Am Watching Four Canada Geese
April 12, 2018[…] grain is buried. Things get lost under what goes round. They’ll huddle through the night, wait to feed till morning, when wheat fields are hard and ice crystals glitter through the air: winters, they […]
Crows
April 11, 2018[…] ecstasy be, in the case of Yugoslavia, a defiantly troubled lifestyle? Perhaps some people actually learn to feed on the opposition in their lives. 27 March: A General Authority finally came to Yugoslavia. He […]
A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power
April 11, 2018[…] If you are criticized, search your souls. Jesus did not say, “count my sheep.” He said, “ feed my sheep.” Do not shun the needy, the weak, the oppressed. Love the wretched, the idle, […]
B.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon
April 10, 2018[…] every kind,” “fowls of the air,” “fish of the waters,” and “seeds of every kind” plus enough feed and water to sustain these animals and the complement of about 100 Jaredite colonists. The trip […]
Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
April 10, 2018[…] and it shall be still. Cause streams to break forth in dry places. Shall be able to feed thousands in times of famine by the prayer of faith. Several recipients were told “if you […]
Professional Myths About Latter-day Therapy
April 10, 2018[…] evaluate a referral and get feedback. Church leaders I have talked to typically get little or no feed-back regarding referrals they have made, whether to independent counselors or to LDS Social Services. They have […]
Heinrich Hug and Jacob Tobler: From Switzerland to Santa Clara, 1854-80
April 10, 2018“Not a day passes over the earth,” Charles Reade wrote, “but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great works and suffer noble sorrow. Of these obscure heroes, the greater part will…
Telling the Tales and Telling the Truth: Writing the History of Widtsoe
April 10, 2018[…] the sick, keeping fires going, with big kettles of soup or pans of bread baking to help feed the sick. Mother helped nurse several who had it, and one I remember who died in […]
The Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus
April 9, 2018In 1975 I enrolled in the divinity school at the University of Chicago, where I hoped to earn a Ph.D. under Norman Perrin, a distinguished British New Testament scholar. But a call I made at the same time to the head of the LDS Church Education System in Salt Lake City stopped me cold in my tracks. He told me that if I wanted to teach New Testament for the church I could do so with a Ph.D. in physics or family counseling— anything but a degree in New Testament studies. That attitude has created a vacuum in serious New Testament studies among Latter-day Saints. One way to fill this void is to become a member of the Westar Institute of Sonoma, California, whose goal, among others, is to expose the public to serious biblical scholarship.