Once upon July
March 21, 2018[…] the delicious presence of absence de scribed by that Portuguese word that cannot find a mate in English. The music reminded me of other cultures, other worlds, other ways of being, and other feelings […]
[…] the delicious presence of absence de scribed by that Portuguese word that cannot find a mate in English. The music reminded me of other cultures, other worlds, other ways of being, and other feelings […]
[…] a moral life but also to discover the intellectual grounds for ethical behavior. A side-effect of the search was the discovery that as an atheist, “the philosophers’ Gods made more and more sense to […]
[…] taxi said it all. I had become an uprooted pilgrim, paying strangers to drive me around in search of a place I might really belong. I’d stepped into the particle accelerator in which new […]
[…] that, contrary to previous stories, Mormon settlers in Cedar City bore responsibility for the massacre. (See http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/ news-releases-stories /150th-anniversary-of-mountain-meadows massacre continued ). It was not perpetrated by John D. Lee and the Paiutes as […]
[…] for a general audience, titled American Revelation: The Making of the Mormons to be published by Random House in time for the Iowa caucuses. The book is making news even in advance of its publication.
[…] what he means by that. I go to punk/hardcore shows, and I’ve heard the term on the news reports about gang violence in Salt Lake. But Jacob says most of the media coverage of […]
[…] book that has attracted so few diligent readers. Critics have mocked its imitation of King James Bible English, its preposterous proper nouns, its apparent anachronisms, its convoluted plot lines. One wag claimed it would […]
[…] her feathers plucked out. My hips start to crack as if my private parts are a tree breaking under the weight of a storm. Still I push. I can’t not push. Sister Patty is […]
[…] Journal of Mormon Thought, and miscellaneous articles in Sunstone magazine. He recently completed an 11-year stint as news editor for Sunstone and lives with his family in Oxford, Ohio. David J. Howlett is a […]