Excerpts from Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
May 13, 2019[…] you were alive?” “How long do I have?” “About a decade.” He is truly stunned. He takes stock of his little children. He reaches a hand toward his wife. He tilts his head, and […]
[…] you were alive?” “How long do I have?” “About a decade.” He is truly stunned. He takes stock of his little children. He reaches a hand toward his wife. He tilts his head, and […]
[…] Somalis. Every day at work was like an African Union Summit, but instead of debating economics and politics we made shoes.” He returned the shoe to me. “Now I work in a home furnishings […]
[…] disapproved) along with his daily pain aux raisins while he read his paper, especially the US sports news, and then a chapter in his French Bible—his attempt to repent of all this guilty pleasure. […]
[…] November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the […]
[…] in turn, is a product of experience; and a large portion of the experience of an American today consists of reading books and magazines and watching television and movies. Therefore, it is only reasonable […]
[…] and a lemon chiffon cake and they just drooled.” There was a grocery circular from the corner market and a letter inviting her to join the Great Books Club. She tossed everything into the […]
[…] summers hence. Our stake missionaries here are hoping to meet them at the temple. See the “Church News,” January 20, 1968, p. 4. See also Alma 29:8; 2 Nephi 31:3; D&C 5:10; D&C 105:24; […]
[…] get through graduate school without such an awakening, especially when many of those writers seem so bland today that I wonder along with Sam Taylor “if most of them weren’t mainly victims of bad […]
[…] Christian, Jr. History of Lakeview Ward, 1855-1951. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson, 1969. Jonas, Frank H., ed. Politics in the American West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 1969. $9.50. With chapters devoted […]
[…] I feel prompted to voice my expression of support for the continued publication of this vitally important and necessary journal. I consider myself an active and devoted member of the Church. But like so […]