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March 15, 2018[…] But . . . ” “What?” “They’re all Peculiars.” I sigh. You will be pleased with this news. The remaining bits of Zion, the Mormons who still want to be a peculiar people finding […]
[…] But . . . ” “What?” “They’re all Peculiars.” I sigh. You will be pleased with this news. The remaining bits of Zion, the Mormons who still want to be a peculiar people finding […]
I read the Qur’an often because it speaks peace to my soul.
[…] truth and fiction, as if the two were grossly different, a mistake often made (but not usually by English majors). He seems to imply that facts are more important than the kind of truth to […]
[…] the word of. Although a small and common preposition, of has a knack for introducing ambiguity into English prose. As linguist Dallin D. Oaks has observed: “Many prepositions can in fact represent a variety […]
[…] gendered belief systems, that spun out phrases like “girls can’t” and “women should.” I hit a breakthrough— breaking point?—a few years ago when I visited my parents in Florida, where they served an eighteen-month […]
[…] of the Church, 6:311. Smith, “King Follet Sermon.” Lorenzo Snow, “The Grand Destiny of Man,” Deseret Evening News 52, no. 207, Jul. 20, 1901, 22. Joseph Fielding Smith, “Exaltation: Joint Heirs with Jesus Christ,” […]
[…] visitations. These stories are stitched together (the word sutra means “thread” and is the root word for English words such as suture) that, when unfurled, reveal a larger cosmic pattern or theme. And there […]
[…] tidings”) to mean that anyone who spoke ill of the king was denying scripture and promoting fake news: And how beautiful the hope of other worlds other waters other priests I keep running to […]
[…] in another state), effectively abandoning my target demographic. A freelance food critic reviewed it in the Deseret News, giving it a lukewarm appraisal, and it was quickly forgotten. The only royalty check I ever […]
[…] diploma (agregate) allowing me to teach in senior high-school. I speak Dutch and French as mother tongue, English and German as second language, and beside the classical Latin and Greek, essential and active part […]