Birthing
April 19, 2018[…] grotesque. I wrapped my arms around myself and closed my eyes. Dale left to share his happy news at the office. The recovery room nurse was a soul from the past, ministering supreme in […]
[…] grotesque. I wrapped my arms around myself and closed my eyes. Dale left to share his happy news at the office. The recovery room nurse was a soul from the past, ministering supreme in […]
[…] some radical ideas, such as: (1) matter and spirit can be neither created nor annihilated, (2) the world was not created ex nihilo, but organized out of existing matter, and (3) God is bound […]
[…] something. One of my students, Cheryl Lambert, caught a glimpse in a paper she wrote for our English class of the kind of clarification death can bring: I live most of my life in […]
[…] seems bound to the earth that contains “small things cleanly drawn, exercising shape and line—theirs alone.” These share the light with him, although he is its center. His gratitude for them binds him to […]
[…] and space. In this sense, the church is not -— should not -— always be in the market for answers but for liberating questions that, in their own way, take us into the mysteries […]
[…] the word species has lost its essentialist connotation and now refers to a group of individuals that share a recent common heritage. For those that reproduce sexually, a species exists when any pair of […]
Several years ago an unsigned Church News editorial on “Two Great I Women” praised Emma Hale and her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, for their loyalty to Joseph Smith: “They never hesitated to valiantly defend […]
[…] who develops his or her talents will not only have a better self but better skills to share” (Hurd, 1982, 146). These women cope within the stability of the Mormon framework of roles and […]
[…] to the “Lamanites”—native peoples of the Americas and Polynesia. We have invited Eugene England, Jr., professor of English at BYU, to document his parents’ efforts, over a period of forty years, to respond to […]
[…] described as a “scientific recognition system for written or spoken utterances,” began with Augustus De Morgan, the English mathematician and logician, in 1851. After delineating how it works, Taves then in forms his readers […]