Salvation
March 23, 2018[…] at Anna over the top of his head. “Even the drunkards don’t like us,” she said in English. “I’m Catholic, non-practicing.” “We know,” she replied. “The whole country is Catholic, non-practicing.” “So what are […]
[…] at Anna over the top of his head. “Even the drunkards don’t like us,” she said in English. “I’m Catholic, non-practicing.” “We know,” she replied. “The whole country is Catholic, non-practicing.” “So what are […]
[…] more to the Church than to herself, to find the oneness rather than the disparateness in the world. Told all of her life to “marry a worthy young man, start a family, and fulfill […]
Paul Edwards’s first mystery novel, The Angel Acronym, is not exactly a religious novel, but it is a novel in which the characters spend a great deal of time talking about religion. And the […]
[…] the past hidden behind some of these religious bodies to carry out acts of subversion against Third World countries” (172). Without defending the Freeze, one could see why the leaders of an African nation […]
[…] would not be living inside the Mormon story of eternal gender. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” states that “gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.”[1] […]
Vickie Speek is a fifth-generation Mormon whose progenitors were pioneers in Idaho. An award-winning journalist, she received the Award of Excellence from the Illinois Historical Society in 2001 for her research on the Civil […]
[…] was fair game. The Confessional poets created a disturbing, often autobiographical, poetic of pain that shocked the world with its raw anatomy of human suffering.”1 Thus, through Christmas’s various transparent personae (“Rob,” “Our Hero,” […]
[…] time. The study door stayed firmly shut. She said goodnight to her dad, who was watching the news now, said goodnight to her mom in the kitchen, went upstairs, and went to bed. *** […]
[…] baptized in a Protestant church in Japan, my mother in an American mission, my father in an English mission. Here are my thoughts about my mother’s belief in Christianity. She believed in a superstitious […]
President Monson broke new virtual ground with this commemorative essay on 9/11, officially becoming the first president of the LDS Church to blog.