[…] story: “I chase away my mother’s blue beasts, / concoct a strong spell to keep her from breaking / out of my childhood” (8). In “Ophelia, amphibian,” she reimagines Ophelia’s death as a metamorphosis, […]
[…] by riches, fine clothing, gold, silver, covetousness, murder, hunger for power, and “the vain things of the world” (Alma 39:14). If the center were immutable, then the prophets would not have to constantly risk […]
[…] judged according to the holy judgment of God” (2 Ne. 9:12–13, 15; see 2 Ne. 9:4–22). Spirit World Alma 40 offers a particularly poignant window into Alma’s inquisitive mind and thirst for further spiritual […]
[…] to make women subject to a draft, if reinstituted (as was previously done before the end of World War II), and to be trained for combat purposes. ERA would require that the draft system […]
[…] remembers in this context Gerard Manley Hopkins’s lovely allusion to the Holy Spirit who, “over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”) Even though recorded third-hand, the following account […]
[…] McKean was the problem of conduct of soldiers in Salt Lake City. The cases involved the apparent breaking of local ordinances by soldiers on the one hand and the alleged abuse of the soldiers […]
[…] commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men” […]
[…] to fulfill the law.” Charles Card pointed out that they should “not publish these things to the world,” but “they should obey all commandments of God.” The Church members in Cardston continued to openly […]
[…] accepted view of the origin of one of their books might have to be revised. Like the American people generally, the Mormons have a very strong presentist and futuristic orientation. In some situations this […]
[…] when all I did was marry a man, one man, not multiples, and without shedding blood or breaking the Sabbath or any of the many things men in the scriptures did when the Lord […]