[…] laws enacted by the legislature rather than laws enacted by Congress or other states (JD 1:96-103; Deseret News, 15 Nov. 1851; Brooks 2:407-8). Although Smith did not specifically mention it, a case earlier that […]
[…] to the main mast. The gale howled through the spars and rigging. Soon “mountain high” waves were breaking over the deck and pounding like thunder against the creaky hull. The ship pitched to the […]
[…] closing prayer. We protested briefly, hoping the next two meetings would offer her more, but gave in, breaking mission rules to take her home in our Church-owned car. We returned and sat miserably through […]
More than twenty years ago I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can’t speak for the Church, but I suspect it is safe to say that neither…
[…] A member of the human race! To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweep stake. . . . There is […]
[…] time, pah-haps,” she said. She wiggled away, like a movie queen, turned and laughed, her whole face breaking pixie-like into squeezed-up lines of wrinkle. Her tribute to wantonness—even in sport—brought flickers of embarrassment into […]
[…] shaman of Alaska can speak Tlingit when inspired. East Africans who neither understand nor speak Swahili or English speak these languages when possessed by spirits (May 1956). Virginia Hine, another researcher of speaking in […]
[…] Government are . . . ” is unnecessary, as “corporate” nouns always take the plural in British English, even today. On the plus side, the book is very well manufactured, and its cover is […]
[…] the policy of censorship imposed by the Pentagon and the media itself was viewed as treachery. One news reporter was accused of being a “sympathizer” for the enemy when he covered stories that other […]
[…] are only various stake and mission presidents and regional representatives, each with limited jurisdiction. When a major news story with religious implications breaks, as, for example, the Rushdie affair, the death of a pope, […]