[…] of life, and concentration of purpose re moved from the largely mindless, mechanical routines of your everyday world. Cap and gown announced that the wearer had accepted certain rules of living and been tested […]
[…] oars. “About what?” “The rapids. Flipping.” He shrugs. “There’s a lotta things to worry about in this world. Like getting old. I worry a lot about getting old. Hey,” he says, “next year I’ll […]
[…] their respective tables one-third of his time or thereabouts, and that he held them out to the world, by his language or his conduct, or by both, as his wives, you should find him […]
[…] was one woman, then pregnant with her third child, who expressed decided approval of the speech: “The world has seduced us away from our children,” she said. “We needed this strong reminder to return […]
[…] leave me here; take me with you.” But she went alone and left me to face the world without her—a world from which the focus of meaning had gone. My reason for doing everything […]
[…] are unable to give up our positions of power, our titles, our honors and recognition from the world or the Church. And who can blame us? We believe we have earned it all. We […]
[…] and do, laud imperialistic, authoritarian slave societies. The scholarship of antiquity is often removed from the real world, hygienically free of value judgments. Of the value judgments, that is, of the voiceless masses, the […]
[…] stories will be remembered longer. Why? Because they grow out of and support many Mormons’ beliefs, their world view. This essay grows out of four observations we have made regarding the way Mormons tell […]
[…] by Christ and of the power God has granted his children to sanctify themselves by overcoming the world. In such a reality Latter-day Saints live, move, and have their being; it is their meat […]
[…] room, they hovered around me talking in whispers about Mama’s eternal reward and happiness in the next world, but I knew they were aching to ask me what I was going to do now […]