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[…] Tax Amendment to the Constitution. Some of these pieces of legislation evoked positive responses from the Deseret News, which from its inception has been owned and operated by the Church. An editorial on the […]
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[…] out with Science and Belief in God, a strong defense of evolutionary thought, and this from Deseret News Press just five years before the controversy over Roberts’ manuscript erupted. Nonetheless, the topic was very […]
[…] be per mitted to interfere with “reality.” If the reader cannot willingly enter into the fictive world and share in what Tolkien has called sub-creation, or William Irwin the “game of the fantastic,” then to […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
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[…] realize how very little I know about him. This has been brought to me by the daily news coming from the far reaches of God’s infinite territory—outer space: Item: Mysterious arcs, four to seven […]
[…] The arrest and eventual trials of the thirteen commune members implicated in the murders was front page news in northeastern Ohio for two solid weeks and then resurfaced intermittently for almost two years as […]