[…] would be in the language of the original, but the idea is that the JST gives the English sense of the original Greek or Hebrew texts of the Bible. Many JST passages demonstrate commendable […]
[…] her grandmothers—powerful matriarchs—were town midwives for many years and helped bring most of her contemporaries into the world. Her mother seems pale and invisible before her maternal grandmother but was still a woman with […]
[…] designated friendship as an untapped natural resource and considered it as training for living in a social world. He also viewed nonsexual friendships as a vital means of eradicating loneliness from our lives and […]
[…] my chin, make-up from church still in place, trying to avert a headache by shutting out the world. Sundays became dreadful reminders of what I had lost. Sometimes my very patient and very believing […]
[…] and consumerism of our industrial civilization. For some time I have felt that the differences between the world’s traditional religions are minor when contrasted with the enormous difference between any one of them and […]
[…] the last days to stand as witnesses for the Lord and to spread his gospel throughout the world. He explained that this was a reward for their righteous actions in the premortal existence. He […]
[…] far superior to this standard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place in Mormon heaven, though not as an end in itself. Heavenly residents are busy with activities. Those […]
[…] me, the tales of Hannes Alfven and Halton Arp offer critical insight into the “objective and impartial” world of scientific research. First a brief look at Alfven, as told by Los Alamos National Laboratories […]
[…] the open sky like he had me and ask him how he felt. But now the whole world knows, including Mother; and everything I feared as a child has come true. Mother hates Uncle […]
[…] high priesthood being after the order of his Son, which order was from the foundation of the world . . . being prepared from eternity to all eternity, according to his foreknowledge of all […]