The Gift of Tongues
March 14, 2018[…] eyes, she swerved away from two heavy-set women walking toward the bus stop under the shade of black umbrellas. Suddenly, all Mary wanted was to hold Vanessa’s fat baby, fussy or not, and feel […]
[…] eyes, she swerved away from two heavy-set women walking toward the bus stop under the shade of black umbrellas. Suddenly, all Mary wanted was to hold Vanessa’s fat baby, fussy or not, and feel […]
[…] mean to you?” Blank. I could not even see similarities among the various characters at first. Little black designs, black lines, black shapes and squiggles. We were told they were Hebrew words. “Remember as […]
[…] symphony. What a way to hear music, and it doesn’t cost a cent. The night of the blackout brought another kind of harmony to New York. In midtown I looked out at a shockingly […]
[…] beneath the surface of an uncomplicated analysis, which tends to describe a complex problem in terms of black and white categories, there exists a deep ideological conflict between two nationalisms. The circumstances of contemporary […]
[…] would have made up their minds before they heard Romney’s position. The Church position would have enraged black militants, alienated Negroes in general, and offended white liberals, while attracting racial bigots (for the wrong […]
[…] recognition, especially as passing time robs them of immediacy (present-day Mormons do not have the gut-experience of black face mobs or of expulsion and exodus common to those who wrote the hymns or the […]
[…] heard about them in their own home towns. 1970: Stanley Kimball, “A Footnote to the Problem of Dating the First Vision.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 5 No. 4 (1970): 121–122. Stanley […]
[…] in that school year of 1964 fall semester was a pre-announced talk by our bishop on interracial dating. It seemed to be an issue for him. A number of us showed up with non-Indian […]
[…] the group, Apostle Moses Thatcher, had been the source of serious contention and discord in the quorum dating back to President John Taylor’s administration. Ill-will had been generated between Thatcher and George Q. Cannon […]
[…] “which did not exist at the time Lehi left Jerusalem” (p. 139). He lists three sources of dating Deutero-Isaiah: (1) the mention of Cyrus (44:28), who lived 200 years after Isaiah and long after […]