[…] provokes a mental observation on experiences that have taught him “his first terror of the simple elemental world.” He remembers the difficulty of thawing a frozen water line and thinks of his grandparents “lasting […]
[…] to our mountain-valley home, I mimicked their sighs of relief, grateful to be back in a green world. These sighs were echoes of those uttered by pioneer Saints, who looked upon desert as Old […]
[…] usually been associated with distinctively anti-religious points of view. Leslie Stephen, for one, noted in his History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century: “I need not enquire how far it is possible to combine […]
[…] strange territory in the land of current fiction. Though many of her stories begin in the “real” world, they drift into a landscape of dream and fantasy — worlds where the familiar suddenly becomes unfamiliar, […]
[…] If revelation is the “words of God”—that is, if God dictated the revelation word for word in English to Joseph Smith, who had them written exactly as dictated—then changing a single word or even […]
[…] day care and school routines, and I was starting a part-time but seemingly glamorous and progressive job- share situation with my sister in the financial department of Huntsman Chemical Corporation. But our 1984 Christmas […]
[…] had become very interested in writing and literature, so I enrolled at Brigham Young University as an English major. At BYU, I was inspired by President Spencer W. Kimball’s speech, “The Gospel Vision of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is element’” (9). I doubt that a fallen, mortal language can ensure our ability to interpret the world. We are mortal and fallible, as is our language, and any sense we make of the […]
[…] me even the slightest insinuation that God was keeping a tally so he could punish me for breaking some law, although I am sure there were times they wished he would have taken a […]