Essay for June 9, 1998
March 31, 2018[…] to the bishop’s house on June 9, 1978. It was the bishop’s wife who told us the news, weeping: “El prof eta ha recibido una revelation! Todos los hombres di gnos pueden recibir el […]
[…] to the bishop’s house on June 9, 1978. It was the bishop’s wife who told us the news, weeping: “El prof eta ha recibido una revelation! Todos los hombres di gnos pueden recibir el […]
[…] boys, and then set up houses in a small-town succession around the province. Though Kören never asked, mutual friends now and then mentioned Dagmar’s whereabouts, that she had left Calmar for Hinton, then Hinton […]
[…] handcarts across the prairies, or making the arid Salt Lake Basin bloom” (385). Only an atmosphere of mutual respect will enable the dialogue that furthers understanding, which in turn helps the church fulfill its […]
[…] to the honeybee (46, 114) or that sociologist Rodney Stark thinks Mormonism is the most important new world religion to arise since Islam (xvi-xvii, 217, 262, 375). As a result, readers may find the […]
[…] fast-food barbecue near Oxford, Mississippi. I was driving from New Orleans to Lamoni with two colleagues on the Lam oni School Board, returning from a national convention. We were driving straight through the night, […]
[…] our minds “nourished and invisibly repaired” when “depressed by false opinion and contentious thought,” or caught up in “trivial occupations” (The Prelude, 12:208-215). The imprints of Gene that live on in me most certainly have […]
[…] him and for him. When I asked Eugene why he had defended practically everyone else in the world but himself, he re sponded simply, “I can’t. I cannot take a stand against those I […]
[…] human cost. For both my and my wife’s families there was no relative killed or wounded in World War II. The same may be written for war veterans of my Cedar Valley home. Hunting […]
[…] re ally perfectly natural. The point is that the Magic Theory asserts that baptism affects the natural world directly and thereby attains its effectiveness. This is different than the Psychological Theory that asserts that […]
[…] for the dead), and beliefs that deceased Latter-day Saints were engaged in missionary activity in the spirit world. The significance of all this is that Mormonism affords a sense of transcendence over death “at […]