[…] asserts that God has absolute control over our destiny and through his church total control over our world. Lutheranism leaves us some choices with some non-religious worldly controls. Catholicism di vides the controls separating […]
[…] dangerous enough to rescue any body from. I was a boy just before and during the Second World War, and I grew up in Provo, Utah, a small pioneer Mormon town. I longed for […]
[…] wrong tree? Are they roped to the trunk of the tree to hold them safe in a world subject to wind and weather? What have we here? Simians in their element? Men at risk? […]
[…] a spring day in 1955, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered at a White House dinner at the request of President Dwight Eisenhower. The guests included founding partners of three law firms, the President […]
At various times I have heard and read, with mild curiosity, of the anointing of animals by the power of the priesthood in pioneer times, but it wasn’t until I found myself with my […]
[…] characters and their iconography for narrative purposes of his own, Dutcher made God’s Army about the Mormon world. What Terrence McNalley’s 1989 play, The Lisbon Traviata did for gay men, God’s Army has done […]
[…] me for not reading you Curious George every day. Aren’t you?” ;’Liz, you’re not responsible for the world’s woes.” “You had everything you wanted.” “Everything cactus juice could buy.” “You’re blaming Product for your […]
[…] fact, spoken out in recent years about the terrible plight of the poor and homeless in the world and of the power of the church’s plan and programs to overcome such problems.[3] In “Moving […]
For the past six years, I have been engaged in various dialogues best under stood by a quick trip through the editorial correspondence files, a sort of diary (or dia-log) of my term as […]
[…] but, by blending urban fantasy and romance, genre fiction twice over; they are not only written for the young adult market, but they also avoid offending the sensitivities of Mormon readers; and their prose […]