A touching essay on how the dying talk about God.
And an unflatterintg look at Harvard divinity professors.
Today is the 92nd anniversary of the end of the end of Western civilization and of the flower of her youth. May the King of Justice render to those men honor for their courage, recompense for their pain and despair, and forgiveness for their many faults.
Integrity is the same virtue in time as love is in space. Covenants and stewardship are the union of those two faces of the virtue.
Lehi had a revelatory dream, Nephi interpreted it by revelation, and their experience teaches us important truths about revelation. (more…)
John C. Wright hilariously essays to write about the supposed opposition between religion and science, and the nature of science fiction. His definition of science fiction is close to the true one, which is that science fiction is the imaginative fiction of the myths of modernity. (more…)
Brigham Young had a lot of zest for life, but you wouldn’t know it from some of his preaching. He seemed to take the position that this life is the time to prepare to meet God and only valuable insomuch as it prepares us. (more…)
Perhaps people don’t want to break with an unhappy past so much as to relive it; to return to some point on the road to ruin and make the one change, the single alteration that would make it all turn out differently.
On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)
Not only will it be like this, it must be like this. (more…)
Read this interesting interview with a woman who realized that her recovered memories of child abuse were false. (more…)
“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.”
The best fantasy is about what is lost and gone, but surprisingly some of the most moving science fiction is too. (more…)
These two reviews of Toy Story II and III hit me hard. I want, and I do not want, my children to grow up. (more…)