Standards Night
March 14, 2018[…] her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk could not be the standard Standards […]
[…] her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk could not be the standard Standards […]
[…] sunburns. Their whiteness—or, more accurately, pinkness—shocks him, so used he is to working in parts of the world where pale skin belongs to the minority. He laughs at their insipid legs and comfortable waist-lines—not […]
In this final session of the “Spirit of Dialogue” conference, Marlin Jensen and Greg Prince dialogue about “The Future of Faith.” Transcript included.
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I don’t remember who told me about the POX. I have an idea, but it would be a guess. I do remember looking at a lamp while she did it. There was a water […]
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[…] on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterward. —Wallace Stegner They must have had names. To us they were the creek, the tree, […]