[…] seemed somewhat less enchanted. Elder Packard and I had served in the world-in-general mission for seven months —Provo to Chicago to Budapest to Frankfurt—until we finally received legal permission to work in Yugoslavia. My […]
[…] help her ears pop on airplanes. “Besides I needed to get back. I’ve got this sale pending —if the bank comes through and the naughty ladies of Crestview Lane get that house on San […]
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew 24:10-12 Though I admitted in my […]
[…] tiny southern Idaho com munity has such an authentic flavor of small-town Mormon country, a flavor which I did not experience first-hand but at a second-generation level through stories told by my parents, that […]
[…] be heeded and passed on. I offer here a modern version of the acrostic text, loosely translated from the Hebrew. 10 A woman of worth who can find? She is far more precious than […]
Brother Duvalier —the branch president—had us out to his farm for dinner tonight. Which is to say, he had us out to milk cows with his farmhand while his wife made us dinner. It […]
[…] need a flesh and blood example, a person who has attained some measure of holiness. We look for religious heroes, perhaps one of Joseph Campbell’s thousand faces, those who represent us by risking themselves […]
[…] in him during his public ministry. The Jesus of history was in some sense an object of faith —granted, not Christian faith—during his own lifetime. On the other hand, there is no one homogenized Christ […]
[…] the glass, I think I look the same as always: for the past five years I’ve worn a white shirt and tie almost every day, the first two years in France, these last three […]
[…] control. He later explained to his cousin, Jerry Bleak, “I felt guilty and inferior and betrayed by my life in a great many ways. … I shrank from the conspicuity of my disability; I […]