[…] view held among many New Testament scholars, but what is well known in one community may be news to another. Thus I share it for its relevance to the LDS communities and suggest further […]
[…] his nostril three or four times. “Is that really so about those rafters?” Sarmantha asked. “Yes, ma’ am,” Simpson affirmed. “It’s really so.” Otis walked down the street for the mail, knowing he couldn’t […]
[…] deserted them for other realms.” That brings me to mourn the loss of irrigation ditches, since I am old enough to remember when the gutters on either side of Main Street in Salt Lake […]
[…] as my experience has shown. I may “ingest,” by reading, a false analogy like the ones I am talking about; I may “eat” error. Yet I do not necessarily become erroneous; I can analyze […]
[…] underground, banishes it to the territory of the abnormal and forbidden. Ironically, prudery reinforces pornography. Perhaps I am attempting to corrupt model young Latter-day Saints. Per haps I should admit that I am perverse, […]
[…] first sermon as a leader of the Reoganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Amboy, Illinois, on 6 April 1860, he expressed his unqualifed aversion to the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage.
[…] an event eagerly awaited by all those who have come to appreciate such masterful, prize winning short stories as his “The Confessions of Saint Augustine” and “The Road to Damascus,” both republished in his […]
[…] with the statement: “It is wishful thinking to imagine I can begin a new career once I am invested in the old one; there are too many personal constraints (for example, family obligations, financial […]
[…] to step into the books I read. Sometimes it is not even a matter of trying. I am sucked into a story, helpless as a fly in a drain. One summer when our boys […]
[…] his historical context when they refuse to direct their critical tools beyond that context? And so, I am left to wonder whether our gospel scholarship must serve only as a form of spiritual masochism. […]