[…] a hand on the other side. (53) By reaching through, one attains physical contact with the “other world” we seek in the sky. These two worlds “married” together are not merely that of humankind […]
I’m still haunted by a woman who died in our intensive care unit a decade ago. She was eighteen weeks pregnant and had a kidney infection serious enough that her lungs failed. She quickly […]
[…] don’t you tell us things like this?” Why would I tell you, Helen thinks. Who in this world likes to brag about projects that they chaired straight to failure? *** Twenty-one years after the […]
[…] largest lake. When you left the city, in any direction, you plunged at once into a green world of trees, fields, and family farms. A bonus for the Elder at this moment was that […]
[…] thought only. Mormonism has much to say about history, philosophy, and the dynamic trends within the modern world. The Book of Mormon, for example, which relates the history of two major cultures upon the […]
[…] history. The spells in these texts would insure the welfare of the dead man in the next world. They provide a means of getting there) give him certain powers in the next world, and […]
It was in the year 1930, after an unusual “calling” from the Church, that I made a momentous personal decision: to enter the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and work toward the […]
[…] began to recognize elements of irrational hatred in him, and to realize that through his eyes the world was a corrupt network of plots and schemes, of bribes and lies, where only the crafty, […]
As an epigraph to their anthology A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert quote Orson F. Whitney’s 1888 Contributor essay, “Home Literature”: We shall yet have Miltons and […]
[…] four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there and a job on the Union Pacific Railroad, but in the spring of 1883…