Defending Jose
April 1, 2018[…] his driver’s license while the other started questioning him. “Did you speak to José in Spanish or English?” “English.” There wasn’t an officer in the bureau who would admit that the Hispanic he’d picked […]
[…] his driver’s license while the other started questioning him. “Did you speak to José in Spanish or English?” “English.” There wasn’t an officer in the bureau who would admit that the Hispanic he’d picked […]
[…] Christian salvation. A God who puts aside his glory to take upon himself the sins of the world is a very powerful idea to me. It has been the only way out of some […]
[…] extermination for millennia, Jews are understandably suspicious of any attempt to convert them. This should not be news to Mormons, whose notorious missionary zeal raised stringent opposition to the construction of the BYU Jerusalem […]
[…] may be better off with a single parent than in a conflictual relationship. Here there is good news. After rising for several decades, the national divorce rate has reversed and is now declining. The […]
[…] (1905-06): 712–13; reprinted in Defense of the Faith and the Saints, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City, Deseret News, 1907–1912), 310. Seamus Heaney, Poems: 1965–1975 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), 40, 49. “Solus,” […]
Many years ago Virginia Sorensen wrote me a prophetic letter. She had just read my article, “Through Immigrant Eyes: Utah History at the Grass Roots.” She sounded breathless: “For years and years/’ she wrote, […]
[…] or something. The truth was I had my second thoughts. I even tried to break the bad news. “Bobbie,” I said real gentle. “Sometimes these things don’t go like they make you think.” But […]
[…] Greek text of 1 Enoch 1:8. An example of the similarities can also be seen when the English texts of Jude and 1 Enoch are placed together. In Jude v.l it says, “to those […]
[…] church since the early 1970’s. The feminist movement in the United States and other parts of the world had made some RLDS people aware of how the strongly patriarchal culture that exists in most […]
[…] placed evil in the eyes of their dolls. He had stuffed their shelves and closets to the breaking point with clothes and books. The television was constantly on, and it played only at high […]