Hong Kong, Dan Rather declared as he began his television coverage of the 1997 “handover” from British to Chinese sovereignty, “is Asia for beginners.” That is what it was for me, although it has […]
[…] was an intimation of approaching victory. . . . We cannot expect to escape tribulations and ill usage, in a world which numbered the Lord of glory with the worst of malefactors [i.e., at the crucifixion], if […]
[…] be strange that Enoch “could prophecy of the second coming of Christ and of his judging the world [Jude 14-15], and yet not know of his first coming, and of his dying for the […]
[…] some godless place like Chicago or New York?” “Our missionaries are in those cities too. The entire world needs what we have. We want to tell you about it. You have never heard anything […]
[…] between these great changes, but must have been millions of years. The Bible says God created the world in six days, but this does not mean the time which we call days now, viz 24 […]
The epigraph to Emma Lou Thayne’s book Things Happen from Alice Walker reads: “One wants to write poetry that is understood by one’s people.” In the same spirit, I want to write to […]
Joseph Smith may not have ever spoken the word “rhetoric,” but his participation in juvenile debating societies probably brought him some contact with rhetoric’s long tradition.Regardless of his knowledge of this tradition, it is […]
[…] produce things, though sometimes it is less obvious what they produce. Our messages may get lost in the ether, but that metaphor recognizes that I produced something using my computer, whatever it was that […]
The years following the return of the Jewish captives from Babylon were filled with tension. While literal walls were being built around Jerusalem to keep the city safe, pious Jewish leaders were constructing […]
[…] original, uncreated status in the universe, his present dignity and high moral and spiritual possibilities in this world, and the exaltation he may achieve in the hereafter. The optimistic tone of the Mormon doctrine […]