Cemetery Life
March 26, 2018[…] had last spoken to her. I secretly envied those with real grief. I was jealous of that world-worn, gray-lined look. The crying, pale face showed up grieving in my mirror when my Grandfather Nielson […]
[…] had last spoken to her. I secretly envied those with real grief. I was jealous of that world-worn, gray-lined look. The crying, pale face showed up grieving in my mirror when my Grandfather Nielson […]
[…] citizens, especially the poor, a sense of self-worth and a sense of belonging. In a constantly changing world, one in which the future seemed so uncertain, his followers found an identity in a community […]
[…] the problems associated with claiming to be a new prophet and revealing new scripture in a prophetless world with a closed canon as Price claims, why was Joseph Smith making independent new prophecies originating […]
[…] the Magazine was abolished, the Relief Society that LDS women now know. The same issue that carried news of the new names for the Relief Society courses of study celebrated the expansion of the […]
[…] unified whole. After all, the structure of such volumes invites readers to pick and choose and, if read linearly, present multiple repetitions and a narrative that is often, at best, digressive and tangential. Nevertheless, […]
[…] perspectives. For the Bible, problems in ethics (e.g., the advocacy of slavery; capital punishment for adultery, Sabbath breaking, or child rebellion; Jacob’s use of deceit to obtain a blessing; etc.) do not impair judgments […]
[…] long in business. They always need fresh dupes. Solving real problems creates enormous good in the free market and rewards many people in ways not measurable in dollars alone. We live near Northwestern University […]
[…] explores the ambiguities, for both its author and her subjects, of being Mormon in the increasingly feminist world of twentieth-century America. The variations on this theme, which Bush explores in six autobiographies, make for […]
[…] Kolob, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and there was no death in the world.” In the archaeological record, the Late Formative (Pre-Classic) Period (300 BCE to 250 C.E.) was a […]
[…] had lifted its ban on blacks in the priesthood. He was driving on the freeway when the news came over the radio. Bob had to pull off the road because he couldn’t see through […]