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Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace

While living in Philadelphia several years ago, I served for three years as liaison from the Philadelphia Stake High Council to the Philadelphia Spanish Branch located in the Puerto Rican and black barrios of North…

Waiting

The absence of a signal 
is itself information, 
a zero giving meaning to binary ones. 
The call that doesn’t ring, 

A Vision of Judas

The light was too harsh 
in the South. All day 
I sat beneath that tree 
growing darker and darker 
until I was all shade. 

On Becoming a Universal Church: Some Historical Perspectives

Dialogue 25.1 (Spring 1992): 13–36
A historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in membership, temples and missionaries.

Two Sisters Visit Dieppe

We leave the town at noon 
For a beach of white pebbles 
And small, clean bones. The wind 
Whips our sensible skirts, and sun glints