The Playhouse
April 14, 2018[…] a deep breath and run down stairs where everything was civilized and Grampa was hunched over the news on the radio, turning the sound up so loud you couldn’t hear anything else. I was […]
[…] a deep breath and run down stairs where everything was civilized and Grampa was hunched over the news on the radio, turning the sound up so loud you couldn’t hear anything else. I was […]
[…] home for a family meeting. The next morning, she arranged for her husband’s doctor to break the news and encourage her husband to check himself into the hospital, which he did briefly. Meanwhile, she […]
[…] person with cancer, will set aside theories not accepted by the medical mainstream, and be willing to share the victim’s grief and hopes. Suffering To talk openly about one’s suffering is taboo in this […]
[…] creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion” (D&C 123:7). Nothing has more literally ful filled that description than the false Christian […]
[…] shaman of Alaska can speak Tlingit when inspired. East Africans who neither understand nor speak Swahili or English speak these languages when possessed by spirits (May 1956). Virginia Hine, another researcher of speaking in […]
[…] grandfather does not try to coerce God into pacts or bargains. I like his patience with the world and his desire not for power or control or even justification, but merely for graciousness when […]
[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]
[…] Vietnam. On a dewy summer morning in 1969, I returned from a game of tennis to the news that J.B. had been hit in the head by flying shrapnel. At first, the injury had […]
[…] of missionary life, we sister missionaries laughed when some new sisters came to our mission with the news that the wife of the M.T.C. president had instituted a new grooming and etiquette class for […]
[…] upon them.” Exercising authority upon them: exercising authority over people and upon them is power as the world understands it. “But it shall not be so among you,” Christ goes on to explain to them, […]