The Dark Gray Morning
April 13, 2018The dark gray morning has its eye on you
Forget about the stormy
you have more pressing worries. What to do?
The dark gray morning has its eye on you
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The New Zealand Mission During the Great Depression: Reflections of a Former Acting President
April 13, 2018The time was 21 April 1932; the place, New Zealand. I had served as a Mormon missionary for nearly two and one-half years, the normal period according to Church practice for a foreign assignment at…
A Mormon View of Life
April 13, 2018There are many vantage points from which to view a religion. In distinguishing one Christian religion from another, we might study its concept of God, the mission of Jesus Christ, or the role of the…
Cure
April 13, 2018The white man is loud,
he is also blind.
His dreams are bad
and teach him nothing.
Self-Blame and the Manifesto
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57
Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over time members started wondering if it was because of their own actions that polygamy was no longer a commandment.
The Virgin Mary Confronts Mary of Magdala
April 13, 2018Don’t say that.
I never called you whore.
It’s a dream word I never knew.
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 21–39
Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
“Almost Like Us”: The American Socialization of Australian Converts
April 13, 2018A few years ago I listened to a group of American missionaries who had just eaten an enormous meal at our table and were showing their appreciation by telling us how backward Australia is in…
How Could We Have Known
April 13, 2018that loneliness is like
the whole of the moon
rising in a sky so lucent,
the clouds cast shadows
From “Zion’s Attic” | Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis, eds., The Mormon Presence in Canada
April 13, 2018Latter-day Saints are an even smaller minority in Canada than they are in the United States. To put their numbers into perspective, if Canada were California (the populations are approximately equal), the Mormon community would…