Ice Fishing
March 29, 2018[…] a hip and you were really fixed. Going slowly blind, deaf, and lame was bad enough without breaking your hip and getting a jumpstart on the whole process. They got out of the truck […]
[…] a hip and you were really fixed. Going slowly blind, deaf, and lame was bad enough without breaking your hip and getting a jumpstart on the whole process. They got out of the truck […]
[…] made when the History of Joseph Smith, as it was originally called, was serialized in the Deseret News in the late 1850s. Not only does this history place polygamy and Brigham Young’s ecclesiastical significance […]
[…] whispering attendants to my lifelong dialogues with Joseph. I had to remind myself that I see the world differently than I did forty years ago. I’d come on a long and tortured journey. Until […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] than the plagues of Egypt, Rebeca told Sister Ortega to call Her Majesty and give her the news as something confidential, and she added some thing about the importance of knowing how to appease […]
[…] a warm winter. No one at Thiokol noticed that sometimes, on my breaks, I cried over the news, over the workload, over my books. What my father noticed was that no matter how early […]
[…] the twelve issues. Four portray images directly depicting Jesus (with the Nephites, with Mary after the resurrection, breaking bread with the apostles, and raising Jarius’s daughter) and two depict New Testament scenes (one of […]
[…] and we were back in academia fulltime at BYU: Carol was studying anthropology and I was studying English. We went to the University of Utah to listen to Harold Bloom preview his forthcoming book, […]
[…] game. It wasn’t the altruist in me that found the calling appealing or even the desire to share the taste of salvation. Maybe it was just that never dying would mean I could spend […]
[…] his statement: even Jesus was tried. James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1899), 76–87, esp. 80–81, where Talmage writes about “The Atonement” in terms of Jesus’ death and […]