Introduction
April 25, 2018[…] that I would be true to it all the rest of my life, and I’d fight the world against it if that’s what he wanted . . . [9] The “revelation and assurance came […]
[…] that I would be true to it all the rest of my life, and I’d fight the world against it if that’s what he wanted . . . [9] The “revelation and assurance came […]
[…] be society’s unnamed norm—unnamed because unobjectivized—that it becomes the object of fear and repulsion from the pluralist world of the Enlightenment.[5] The French philosopher used the term systematically to condemn superstition, various forms of […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] 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 […]