[…] and many were healed under their hands. HC 4:4-5 In his book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, D. Michael Quinn cites additional examples of healing handkerchiefs, including those of Lorenzo Snow, Newel […]
[…] in clear cellophane bubbles, as if the whole world depended on that vase arriving in Vegas without breaking. I carried the sealed box out to the garage. On my way back through the kitchen, […]
[…] final decision, and he admitted in diary entries on 15 and 20 December that the suspense was breaking him up. Seeking a respite from both solitude and uncertainty, he left Chattanooga on 23 December […]
[…] unrecorded numbers die daily of traumatic childbirth, and the infant mortality rate is the highest in the world (Population Reference Bureau 1989). We saw, then, a people and land opposite from our suburban life […]
[…] chance that he would get better. He felt worthless, unworthy, and vile and was certain that the world would be better off without him. Occasionally the depression would lift, only to return later. At […]
[…] Apologetic Assumptions A key project for apologists is “show that features of the … accurately reflect the world from which it claims to derive in ways that could not have been known to .” […]
[…] responsibility for looking after the welfare of LDS servicemen and their families soon after the onset of World War I. The previous fall this had led Lyman and three other Relief Society women representing […]
[…] was told that under Smith’s direction a dog was sacrificed on the spot in the hope of breaking the charm that held the “pots of money.” According to Austin, the digging occurred before Smith […]
[…] it. I had no idea such a thing was possible. “Wow,” I thought, “we live in a world inhabited by animals capable of stepping on their own teats.” I asked Cliff if there was […]
[…] this gospel (where the very hairs of our heads are numbered) versus the nomothetic nature of the world? It appears so huge, and we appear so tiny in it. It reminds me of a […]