[…] or preventing grace as inconsistent with free will. The Articles and Covenants of the Church emphasized that al though persons become justified or sanctified by grace, they must per severe in works of love. […]
[…] the Author’s Guild, and thirty or forty members met once a month in San Francisco, in North Beach where an Italian dinner—complete with a help-yourself tureen of soup and bottles of red vino de […]
We leave the town at noon For a beach of white pebbles And small, clean bones. The wind Whips our sensible skirts, and sun glints
[…] of Christianity out of that event. Taken literally, that meant that Israel in the religious sense was de trop, finished, archaic, its wretched condition an example of punishment for unbelief in the Christian faith, […]
[…] give you your own to smell.” I picked up trash, pausing occasionally to admire the panorama of Manhattan that I had seen in movies all my life. But I also admired Faith. She put […]
[…] personally or for the Church.” Henry Altman, a “gentleman from the East,” offered to bond the Saltair beach property and railroad in April 1899. The brethren turned him down despite the fact that the […]
Out along the shore the sky is wide.
Ducks fly, drafting like cyclists in Central Park
but unfettered, their path dictated only by season, instinct,
and windshifts. Below with me
[…] observance. The temperate-to-sub-tropic climate fosters an outdoor lifestyle. All year round Sunday is the day for the beach and the barbecue, the sports field, and the plentiful national parks. Conversion has to be real […]
[…] and MISS MORRIS, in “Celebrated Career Closed. Exterminator of Mormons Dies at Loui siana, Mo.,” newspaper obituary, ca. 15 Feb. 1895, of David Conkling, in Henry Stebbins pa pers, P24, f22, RLDS archives. Some […]
[…] ‘Lord’s Meal’ at Corinth,” in Increase in Learning: Essays in Honor of James G. Van Burne ( Manhattan, KS: Manhattan Christian College, 1979), 45-61, 57. See, for example, Isa. 1:18-20; 44:22; 63:7-64:12; Ezek. 11:19; […]