Maisie Prayed
April 2, 2018[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] cadaver testified of human mortality, to the time when we too would rot, our complex organic molecules breaking down to more basic constituents. Through the experience of cutting apart another human being, I concluded […]
[…] these new questions and thoroughly searches its sources of revelation and tradition for fresh, new answers. The search for answers regarding the environment has yielded much fruit, but Genesis in the context of the […]
[…] love, can it be built at all? See William O. Nelson, “Refrain from Speculating about Zion,” Church News, 13 Feb. 1982,13. Here Zion is narrowly defined to mean only the city to be built […]
[…] a Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 240-41; and William Clayton’s Journal (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1921), 83, 91,136-137,143,149. Poulsen, The Landscape, 109; Richard H. Jackson, “Righteous and Environmental Change: The Mormons […]
[…] “As I got further from town, out into the sagebrush and pifion pine, even with my heart breaking I felt a sense of freedom I’d never felt before, like a great heaviness falling away, […]
Sir Henry Maine, our first great modern legal historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market […]
At fourteen, when I could legally hunt game birds, I became a serious hunter. I hunted ducks and pheasants, but also rabbits, crows, rock chucks, hawks, owls, eagles, coyotes, rodents, and rattlesnakes. I never killed…
English professor and rebel: Off campus, our sentences race the tabletop, garbed in wit and color. By the time food comes, our ideas dance
Mormons associate Mahonri Young with his LDS sculptures: Seagull Monument and This Is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City, and the Brigham Young statue in Washington, D.C. Yet Young was internationally known for his…