A Saint for All Seasons
April 2, 2018[…] correct path for inner and outer survival is growing, and the call for help reverberates throughout the world … Saints took the first step toward higher realities and assumed the ensuing risks. To reach […]
[…] correct path for inner and outer survival is growing, and the call for help reverberates throughout the world … Saints took the first step toward higher realities and assumed the ensuing risks. To reach […]
[…] ago, after 359 years of being condemned as a heretic, I had a mixed reaction to the news. I was happy that the Catholic church finally “saw the light” but was disappointed, though not […]
[…] of thorns: “interchange and discussion of ideas,” it says, “especially when open and frank, as in seeking mutual understanding or harmony.” Now I will concede a certain idealism at work in that definition, yet […]
[…] magenta silk, peacock hues swirling around the Mormon women—especially around the English converts. There was a whole world of greens and blues and purples outside his door, and for days at a time, he […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]
[…] are tall, nut producing pines whose trunks rise up high from the earth and then burst at the top like fireworks with long branches that arch toward the sky and terminate in large green pompoms.
[…] years and years/’ she wrote, “I have believed—for what reason, I wonder, since I never really lived in the houses where the true tradition was but could only visit a while, and listen, and […]
[…] by strong essays; organizational behavior, anthropology, and sociology leave us wanting more. This is not necessarily bad news—if the book achieves success as a college textbook, a revised edition would have many ways to […]
[…] somehow still resolute. I was moved to reverence during those quiet scenes in the hospital where, awaiting news of his sick companion, Elder Allen sits next to a statue of Christ in brilliant red, […]
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 […]