[…] would administer the sacrament—not in his ward!) His baggy shirt drooped to mid-thigh, like a tunic. Midnight black, with shooting stars and crescent moons, it looked more befitting Merlin the Magician. The plunging neckline […]
[…] being called as undertaker, and, given time, he’d know it. So here he was: Elder Elijah Abel, black man, carpenter for a temple of the Lord, former minister of the Mormon gospel, now called […]
[…] I do not have to worry about bifocals, buying a late model Cadillac, wearing Bermuda shorts with black socks, irregularity, or Viagra®. I can leave instructions to play Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the Plan of Salvation. Perhaps the most disturbing revelation in the film is the very Mormon, black-and-white way Dutcher addresses the issue of men of African descent having been banned from the priesthood […]
[…] at the Johnnie, apparently purchased a half interest in the Confidence mine, which a renegade Indian named Bob Black had located on the California side of the obscure desert border after being shown a promising […]
[…] was not published until 1867, and then only by the RLDS Church (which is now called the Community of Christ). The JST has never been officially recognized by the LDS church, which continues to […]
[…] have been (and will continue to be) much larger in the LDCs than in the WCs, further di minishing the “density” of our missionary force in the LDCs. By 2020, well over half the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]