The Charity of Silence
March 29, 2018[…] way your hand moves to catch a ball. If God didn’t answer prayers, I thought, then the world was a lie, but that couldn’t be true because I was kneeling on it. I could […]
[…] way your hand moves to catch a ball. If God didn’t answer prayers, I thought, then the world was a lie, but that couldn’t be true because I was kneeling on it. I could […]
[…] church” (180). Given his commitment to family unity, it is doubtful that he would have condoned the breaking up of families even to fulfill the call of the gathering. The manner in which these […]
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[…] of the Messiah. The Savior often tried to tell them that his kingdom was not of this world, that his redemption would come not in the form of military conquest or of fire from […]
I was scrunched behind the big over-stuffed sofa, reading the forbidden works of Mark Twain. Oh horrors, I was reading the most forbidden book of all, Roughing It. I was tittering over what he said…
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[…] for me these reasons why I was once alive. Your daughter told me: “A woman said the world is not ready to lose Gene England, and I wondered: ‘What about my Father.’” Eugene: […]
[…] turns of phrase. Petersen alternates his chapters between chronological biography (childhood, mission to Germany, military service in World War II, and so on) and topical themes in Nibley’s life (social criticism, faith, scholarship, Book […]
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[…] initiated in a revelation to the church, Section 156 of the Doctrine and Covenants, presented to the World Conference by Dr. Wallace B. Smith, President and Prophet, and overwhelmingly approved by the delegates assembled […]