Body and Blood
March 18, 2018It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if I’ll…
It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if I’ll…
[…] about the trade-offs in Church members’ participation, particularly because there’s little discussion of the unintended consequences or human cost of these actions. I have been pained by the often insensitive behavior of Church members […]
Six cars pulled through the intersection, one after the other over the course of an hour, but none of them was hers. Barefoot, Bart waited on the slat bench outside his front door, picking away…
[…] horns through his stomach, so even if it doesn’t happen right away, I can stop his horrible design to bring our company to ruin by placing the knife in his belly. Even in sleep, […]
[…] Graduation The first line of Richard’s speech: Infinity is not a number, but a direction. Similarly, our human potential . . . There’s a sound, like the chugging of a lawnmower moving through thick […]
[…] who desired other men and women who desired other women implied some kind of terrible mistake in design on the part the Almighty, an obvious impossibility for any respectable theology. Moreover, a dream on […]
[…] leave your homes and your belongings. Come with us. We’re going to Him. To Adam-ondi-Ahman where this human journey began. We’re going there to meet Him. He’s waiting for us. We’ll walk if we […]
[…] road. “Avek. Truck!” Still growling low, the dog obeys. Not reluctantly. Age learns its limits. The dog’s human companion, too, is feeling the years press and he stares for a time, watching the rage […]
1886 When Darby turned fifteen, his mother Cora said if he didn’t make up his mind to accept Jesus pretty soon, it would be too late. She said he had to make the choice either…
[…] Society were more like that meeting. Women stood up and bore testimony while expressing genuine emotions and human reaction. There was a lot of love in that room. We sang songs and said prayers […]