[…] Good People is to express empathy and compassion and help those good people make sense of their world and their God when the bad things happen. Though he declares repeatedly that any Job needs […]
[…] young and unschooled for the most part, achieve the success they do remains an enigma to the world at large and often to Mormons as well. Is it their very inexperience which makes missionaries […]
[…] a personal suspicion that critics, especially those who have not put in the same hours of back- breaking research in the archives, are afraid to discuss such matters across the table with historians who […]
[…] deals with death. She relates with unpretentious poignancy how she and her husband con front the jarring news that he is dying and how they share his waning days to achieve personal and spiritual […]
[…] than the splendor—and magnanimity—of godhood itself. As Parley A. Christensen, the late beloved and outspoken professor of English at Brigham Young University, observed, “God himself is limited when men cease to think.” He also […]
[…] down for lack of funding, 12,000 people turned out for a hastily organized protest rally. The local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, often runs pro-nuclear editorials. Sometimes when I read stories about leaks in Hanford’s […]
We were inside the world. The children were sleeping. Light fell through the window. One of us wore red.
[…] a decision in later years that would alter dramatically not only the Church, but more importantly the world’s perception of the Church. My last conversation with this beloved man was in the spring of […]
The world’s living religions began with the lives and teachings of charismatic leaders such as Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muham mad. Each won a following by the force of his character, the witness […]
[…] home; it happens on the job; it happens simply because we’re human beings in an im perfect world, surrounded by other hu man beings (p. 56). She groaned. She’s heard it all before. Is […]