[…] early age. I think it was by reading novels from authors like Emilio Salgari who talked about the Middle East and Far East. He wrote a couple of Western novels, but most were in […]
[…] As Jack said, when you’re dead, you’re dead. 1899 When the bottom dropped out from under the world price for silver, Darby went down to Park City, Utah, where he heard the silver mines […]
[…] from all her worries into a land of eternal bliss, or skip all that to save the world by . . . by doing what? “I could delete the prayer from our systems.” “Not enough.” She shook […]
[…] visited Dad’s brothers. In fact, we rarely drove further north than Menlo Park. San Francisco was a world away, a cluster of row houses and skyscrapers hidden in the clouds. We drove through occasionally. […]
[…] Christ while serving with his unit in Northern Africa. A respite from conflict was taken to celebrate the pagan Roman emperor’s birthday and pledge allegiance to the empire. Marcellus rose before the banqueters, cast […]
One of the happy surprises that makes history so interesting is the fact that Utah ever became Mormon Country, for during the roughly one hundred years before 1847 it had been, if anything, Catholic […]
[…] eyes. But nothing. He was smiling, a bounce in his step, a man at peace with the world. He looked at me as Carr did so long ago from that wooden bench—as if he […]
[…] men like me feel a deep desire to be hands-on fathers who claim responsibility for many of the tasks that previous generations assigned principally to mothers; to not perform these duties for us is […]
[…] “the Book will turn out to be, not a guide to events marking the end of the world — as fundamentalist exegetes have often made it—but a challenge to ancient Rome, with her paganism […]
[…] resolved them by asking ourselves some other questions: What is the role of the Church in a world crisis? What can the Church do in war prevention? Who can provide counsel and guidance on […]