[…] of missionary life, we sister missionaries laughed when some new sisters came to our mission with the news that the wife of the M.T.C. president had instituted a new grooming and etiquette class for […]
[…] meeting; many members had left before it could be delivered.) The other woman works for the Deseret News. Although she resists intimidation from political figures to stay silent on volatile issues, she succumbs to […]
[…] politician visits Salt Lake City or the Polynesian Cultural Center, these stories invariably appear in the Church News. When I was at BYU, a favorite story was about the Pope’s nephew joining the Church and […]
[…] Hans Mol, The Faith of Australians (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985), 219. See Australia Sydney Mission News, various issues including 24 Oct., 19 Dec. 1977; 20 Mar., 18 June 1988. See, for example, […]
[…] sorrow was too big to handle. My mind drifted to what I had just read with my English 115 students. Neil Postman in “Learning by Story” argues that our lives must be surrounded by […]
[…] may be music played by several instruments, or one instrument playing harmony, see Walter Bauer, A Greek- English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, trans, and adapted by William Arndt […]
[…] lepers be cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead be raised and the poor have the good news preached to them. What is remarkable in all this is how many different deeds and sayings […]
[…] failure to accommodate (utopian) gay cultures. See Tom Yingling, “Homosexuality and Utopian Discourse in American Poetry” in Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, eds. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman (New York: Oxford University […]
[…] seems to me a gross underestimation of the nature of God, church, and faith—as if God needs English professors saving the day! Who would imagine oneself in such a proprietary role? A Mormon woman […]
[…] accusing Freud of succumbing to the ideology of science. (Freud apparently thanked him for the compliment.) My search allowed me to know that Freud was not an evil man. He was, however, unwilling to […]