[…] The Dutch physician Johann Weyer argued that the devil took advantage of imbalances in the humor of black bile to produce a mental illness (melancholy). He argued that the devil did so to generate […]
[…] wood smoke and sagebrush. I looked down Blind Canyon and then turned to look up at the black silhouette of the ridge under the stars. I knew the bucks would already be out feeding […]
[…] freeway. “Looks like a bad one,” Bob said turning from his window. “Probably hit a patch of black ice earlier.” “Probably.” The freeway was dry except where the plowed snow had melted and the […]
[…] trying to avoid him he’s not there. I miss him, actually. I miss seeing his red and black mackinaw, his grizzled sunken face—kind of grandfatherly. Even though I’ve always known he’s a nut. Seriously, […]
[…] climb into the Peugeot taxi that Leila was taking from Oran to Algiers. The woman wrapped her black haik close against her full contours to avoid stepping on its hem. She smiled at Leila […]
[…] by some of his successors in their own Church publications. For example, ignoring the arguments for later dating, Sperry student Ellis T. Rasmussen posited: “Could other materials have been made available to Moses, from […]
[…] including a leisurely boat trip to Michigan, prior to the appearance of the article in December 1834 dating the revival to Joseph’s 15th year (HC ii, 162, 165f, 168, 172f, 174f, 176). Again, they […]
[…] forced to admit that I was bereft and miserable being away from church. I missed my religious community. I missed that spiritual nourishment. I missed God. But most importantly, I missed my identity as […]
[…] away from the casket and out of the room of women hiding their crying faces in their black shawls. My aunt was the real disciplinarian: “You cannot talk about Papa’s makeup!” “Why?” “Because you […]
[…] Joseph Rakenstraw, 1822), 107. Quoted in Benjamin Keogh, “The Holy Priesthood, The Holy Ghost, and the Holy Community,” Mormon Scholars Foundation Summer Seminar paper, Brigham Young University, Jul. 23, 2015, n.p. Gibbons, Truth, 85. […]