[…] treated to an analysis of how the Bible serves as the repository of much of the Western world’s cultural mythology. Frye himself describes The Great Code as neither a work of biblical scholarship nor […]
[…] other suggestions on how to survive as a gentile in Utah, offered this tip: “Ask guides at the Beehive House how many wives Brigham Young had. (Of my last four tours, the answer has […]
[…] if I were God? If I were God I would, as many claim he did, create the world and then give us a few billion years to work out our own salvation, possibly with […]
[…] provokes a mental observation on experiences that have taught him “his first terror of the simple elemental world.” He remembers the difficulty of thawing a frozen water line and thinks of his grandparents “lasting […]
[…] ways. Serving no purpose that I could discern, some biblical and extra-biblical parallels were presented all in English except for one word in Hebrew, Greek, or occasionally Egyptian or Syriac transliteration. This transliterated word […]
[…] reasons are several and compelling. In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.
[…] shows how the top-heavy hierarchy within the tiny order places marginal people on top in their own world. And he also shows how Glendenning’s insecure environment led him to see his dreams and fantasies […]
[…] and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world” (3 Ne. 1:13). In a subconscious way I had taken this touching passage as scriptural support […]
[…] Fez airport. Their country, however, seemed somewhat less enchanted. Elder Packard and I had served in the world–in-general mission for seven months—Provo to Chicago to Budapest to Frankfurt—until we finally received legal permission to […]
[…] breadth of his life from the late 1850s as a neglected child in Dickensian England to post- World War I Utah as a respected, outspoken official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]