[…] grandfather does not try to coerce God into pacts or bargains. I like his patience with the world and his desire not for power or control or even justification, but merely for graciousness when […]
[…] a more useful precept than that originated by Rene Descartes. From Descartes’ time to our own, the world has been awash with the weighty thoughts of competing philosophies—many of them ridiculous and some downright dangerous. […]
I have written this letter to you before and I will write this letter to you again. In it I tell you that the days are starkly blue and unbearably warm, that the cooling storms
The picture gathers from a host of things— From giggles of remembering, not play By play but one word lifting from another Into a rearview record, a happy weather
[…] have produced what in any other religious tradition would be classified as theological apologetics. Many defenses of the LDS faith have challenged the core thesis of Evangelical counter-Mormonism that Mormons are not Christians. Some […]
Sometimes instead of walking the four blocks home after Sunday school I’d walk the block and a half downtown to the Millard County Courthouse in Fillmore, Utah, where my father worked as the county […]
He says there’s very little truth in the world and he can’t wait to go out, preach, and spread his own— like he has the corner on it.
So I went to Cana and spent Sabbath in that house, their guest, before the wedding. The daughter spoke with joy of her marriage; the mother sat impatient—Sabbath’s end
The summer 1993 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought featured D. Michael Quinn’s near-definitive discussion of Ezra Taft Benson’s political activities during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Despite Quinn’s thorough documentation, in […]
[…] be struck naked by the Lord” (149); that Nephi and his family on arrival in the New World “split into three groups—the Nephites, the Jaredites, and the Lamanites” (155); that the Lamanites were turned […]