Learning from the Land
April 4, 2018[…] wrote to me in the thirty years since I left home. Mother did practically all the letter writing and she wrote fairly often, so these two yellowing pieces of paper are rare. I have […]
[…] wrote to me in the thirty years since I left home. Mother did practically all the letter writing and she wrote fairly often, so these two yellowing pieces of paper are rare. I have […]
[…] for truth, you may find comfort in the end: If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with, and, in the end, […]
[…] to Washington, D.C. With the confirmed loss of the Nauvoo stereotype plates, Brigham Young instructed Pratt to get copies for the Utah Saints. After obtaining estimates for printing the Book of Mormon in New […]
[…] this there is a significant difference between some practically alternative and oppositional meanings and values (absolute brotherhood, service to others without reward) and a larger body of incorporated meanings and values (official morality, or […]
[…] he wanted. He re called, “I remember they tried to do everything they could to try to get me over the lonely feeling. They had a swimming pool in the back yard. I knew […]
[…] its comforts. Also, many of Freud’s followers have been and are religiously devout. Interestingly, when Freud began writing, the clergy kept pace with his publications, particularly a contemporary clergyman named Pfister. For instance, when […]
[…] dominant two-source theory, something very like this was faced by Matthew and Luke as they set about writing their gospels. Of the two, Luke took the simpler approach to incorporating Q into Mark’s outline. […]
[…] been trying to write a Ph.D. dissertation about women and their diaries and how the act of writing to the self can nurture along the development and growth of a woman’s voice. And I […]
[…] in subsequent centuries and contain no independent early tradition about Jesus. As I have already mentioned, Tacitus, writing about 110 A.D., makes brief mention of Jesus’ execution. That about exhausts early independent witnesses to […]
[…] such sub-headings as “Cults and Accounting” and “Stewardship, Self-reliance, and Alienation.” And under “Morality and Enterprise,” we get treated to the platitude “In the end it is human motivation that makes an economy operate,” […]