[…] recognizes that “the abusive practices described in these pages may appear to be far removed from the world of conventional churchgoers.” But he maintains that such “tendencies toward abusive styles of leadership are more […]
In 1975 I enrolled in the divinity school at the University of Chicago, where I hoped to earn a Ph.D. under Norman Perrin, a distinguished British New Testament scholar. But a call I made […]
[…] winter and into spring Charlie Sutton tended his wife as best he could. It was awkward from the start, knowing that the outcome was never really in doubt. The cancer that Bettie defeated six […]
If you haven’t been living in a cultural bomb-shelter (or serving a mission) over the last few years, you’ve probably noticed a strange media obsession with my generation. Twenty-somethings, they call us. Sometimes slackers. […]
[…] because of the dispersed decision-making authority and lack of clear institutional standards. For example, in the business world there is no code of professional conduct agreed to by any governing body that is analogous […]
[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] in Eastern Montana. They were surrounded and killed “to a man,” history books solemnly intone. The bad news reached Philadelphia, which was wrapped in bunting for the nation’s hundredth birthday. It was an unbelievable […]
[…] ponds and caught some four and five pound brook trout, which are very large brookies. Coming home, the driver—a friend of Gene’s father—fell asleep and rolled the car, scattering the contents, including the occupants […]
[…] for the dead), and beliefs that deceased Latter-day Saints were engaged in missionary activity in the spirit world. The significance of all this is that Mormonism affords a sense of transcendence over death “at […]
[…] no longer bear the remoteness of his soul. And then, after the Mormon missionaries found him, the world was not as it once seemed to be. Father Dejardin shook Luis’s shoulder lightly. “Luis, morning […]