[…] painted a strikingly idyllic picture: “All is peace and quiet. . . .no war in our little world; how peaceful and quiet, how still, how happy, how lonely. . . .t is the poet’s […]
[…] endemic in life. Edgar does not dramatize his own suffering. Childlike, he takes it in stride, accepting the world for what it is. He survives simply by enduring; he just keeps moving forward. And he […]
[…] without causing the death of others, and we embrace the values of acculturated Ammonites who narrowly avoided breaking their own covenants of nonviolence only by sending their own children into battle. We forget that […]
[…] on the struggle with sin. Harrell is seriously engaged in trying to depict the difficulties of this world without worrying about providing moral guidance. His book is a stark testimony of life in the […]
[…] Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) after which they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayers. They were now a Spirit-filled people, praising God with glad and […]
[…] Kolob, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and there was no death in the world.” In the archaeological record, the Late Formative (Pre-Classic) Period (300 BCE to 250 C.E.) was a […]
[…] belief in the Mormon faith would not be held against me, as it normally is in the world of the agnostic academe. In some measure, reading Bushman’s Believing History has helped me to understand […]
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[…] sound. I felt completely alone. Then I thought, “I wonder when I’ll come up again?” and the world exploded around me. I was back with water in my eyes and the jumpsuit clinging to […]
[…] from Rabbi Isaac Luria in which God’s divinity is shattered into pieces at the beginning of the world. I told our boys that our job as human beings is to gather the pieces of […]