[…] magic on the early church. Before the appearance of his 1987 tome Early Mormonism and the Magic World View , Quinn had already earned a reputation as a defender of both his faith in […]
[…] was like Noah: he’d collected two of every kind. He was happiest in two places in this world: behind the wheel of an airplane or in a hardware store. I have inherited his love […]
[…] enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world’s record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected.[1] Bush’s futuristic “trails” […]
[…] this assignment, child? I mean, Sarah the first has near half a billion real children populating the world she and Abraham made together, with well over a billion spirit kids just waiting to go. […]
[…] and me against The Man. Samuel liked it. He pushed it in the first stage. The whole world against us. I feel your pain. We can make it, but we’ve got to work together. […]
[…] money.” “I don’t want it back, Elsie. You don’t have to worry about anything.” “How in the world?” Shaking her head, she closed her eyes and then opened them again. “Where’s the bishop? Where’s […]
[…] been strangers except for the fishing. It was as if their fishing put them in another minor world. They visited each other at Christmas to drop off a gift that always had to do […]
During the worst economic depression in the history of the United States up to 1929, that of the 1890’s, the highest leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several […]
[…] ordered the udders on Disney’s cartoon cows removed as too titillating. It was a white male, G-rated world. What would change so satisfying a status quo? The answer is the same force that moved […]
[…] congregation in Independence, Missouri. After a week of solemn and joyful conference services remembering the past century of the denomination’s history, men from across the world sat seeking the Lord’s further direction before Easter services.