[…] can become. Sex is sanctioned within marriage, especially when the intent is to bring children into the world. Unfortunately, the messages urging restraint and the warnings against sexual sin, even between husband and wife, […]
[…] illusory products of human imagination.” LDS therapists can also be so enmeshed in the wisdom of the world that they downplay the role of religion in their lives and particularly their therapy in the […]
[…] a dream, but when I stepped out of the tent I found that the rest of the world had ceased to exist and that our camp was floating in a sea of nothing. In […]
[…] she has cubs. My need to be close to her made it a struggle to keep my world from being just the two of us. I was just the two of us for so […]
[…] Mormon History where I could read the writings of other scholars who were maintaining faith in a world of shattered titans. Fur thermore, I had a strong will to believe. I knew the whisperings […]
[…] Yet I had felt prophecy during my wedding to Rick, though I had expected nothing. After nearly breaking our second engagement, we instead said “yes” to the sealer; and there at the altar I […]
[…] wine, and with the money he stole he could buy cigarettes and alcohol anyway. I imagine him breaking those fine things he couldn’t sell and spitting on the floors of the houses he robbed, […]
[…] of the immanence of God in human affairs that the apparently pointless evil and injustice in the world can be handled by the valid assertion that God’s ways are not man’s ways. He is […]
[…] shared es says and poetry, words of consolations, and dreams of a better church and a better world. In thirty-five years of friendship we never quarreled, not even when we had differences, as we […]
Brady Udall has given the same sort of message to readers of his fiction. In an interview with the journal Irreantum, Udall said, “I don’t want to teach readers a lesson of any kind. […]