[…] positions or assist the mission president. But thoughts of leading other missionaries in the daunting effort of breaking through the cold surface of Quebecois culture to find, teach, and baptize the “Lord’s elect” were […]
[…] my life. So this is what I tell myself. Kyle and I, our story, it’s like this news report I remember from last winter about a skier who got lost in the mountains. For […]
[…] other-delusion, folly, and even chicanery.” Friedman sets her review of Refiner’s Fire in the context of periodic news stories focusing on sensational or outrageous aspects of Mormonism: the Mark Hofmann forgeries and murders, for instance, […]
[…] Joseph F. Smith, John R. Winder, and Anthon H. Lund and was published in the Deseret Evening News on November 11, 1905, and the Deseret Semi-Weekly News two days later. In their introductory remarks, the […]
[…] just running late, he tells himself. He remembers reading the play out loud in his ninth grade English class. Ms. Halprtn, stern, tall, gray, selected him to read the part of Romeo. The picture […]
[…] whence it comes, where it originates or who believes in it. . . . A man in search of the truth has no particular system to sustain, no particular dogma to defend or theory […]
[…] It was indeed a miracle. He still sat on the sidewalk, as dismal and smoggy as an English day. But at the end of each leg was affixed a glossy pink doll’s foot. In […]
[…] Strang Period Shortly after Joseph Smith’s murder, Page was directed to return to Nauvoo after “publishing the news” of Smith’s death in eastern cities “and getting as many in the Church as possible.” Over […]
[…] David P. Wright—were “staunch defenders of the Enlightenment,” with its ideals of disinterested reason and the unfettered search for truth, while conservatives publishing with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) held […]
[…] dinner with my grandmother, older brother, and his wife, when the phone rang. It was very bad news. My mother had cancer. It was colon cancer, and according to the prognosis she wouldn’t last […]