“I’d Rather Be…”
April 17, 2018[…] the treasures of the Hermitage. What I see most insistently are the images of two quite ordinary human faces. One is patriarchally bearded and rather craggy, set atop a tall, finely built but slightly […]
[…] the treasures of the Hermitage. What I see most insistently are the images of two quite ordinary human faces. One is patriarchally bearded and rather craggy, set atop a tall, finely built but slightly […]
[…] Mother God. The dream made me realize that one reason I could not accept a mother figure, human or divine, was because I had not allowed myself to fully feel or admit all of […]
[…] and women. Time and time again his teachings and actions, as he treated all those people as fully human, fully loved by God, startled even his closest followers and angered his opponents in the extremist […]
[…] role in the lives of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and the divine willingness to be bound by covenant. This point has remained […]
[…] is a daunting task. The scope of what needs to be done to increase peace, security, and human dignity in communities throughout the world leaves one wondering where to start. At the risk of […]
[…] the proportions with which they are constructed, tapping into what the composer describes as intuitive or anamnestic human sensitivities to universal principles of vibrational structure: “The sensations of ineffable truths that we sometimes experience […]
[…] this one event from either of two perspectives: by using the language of history (“his toric”) with human characters prominent (e.g., Ps. 105) or by using the language of “myth” (“suprahistoric”) with God portrayed […]
[…] before we headed west, I discovered that the ideals that had always mattered most to me—social justice, human rights, and mercy (giving people a second chance)—were more of ten championed by the left than […]
The Marrow of Human Experience collects seventeen of William A. (“Bert”) Wilson’s essays from three decades of a distinguished career. The topics of the essays vary, but all of them reflect, in one way […]
[…] to see how the urge to influence, exact submission, defend dominance, gives away the presence of natal human “sin” whose punishment is the burden of responsibility. I was alone. . . . My poem […]