The Homecoming
March 23, 2018Elder Jeff Lee Johnson came home on January 24 at 2:14 in the afternoon. The plane had made its way north all that day, stopping in Miami, then Atlanta before finally arriving six minutes ahead…
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Antidote for Solitude: The Life of Bonnie Bobet
March 23, 2018The death of a loved one may evoke anguish, regret, confusion, anger, shock, bitterness, despair, relief, gratitude, nostalgia, even joy. But the death of my friend Bonnie evoked in me, both on that Friday morning…
Blind Tears
March 23, 2018From that first dark day
the Khmer Rouge,
a scourge of scarlet locusts,
Why Mormons Should Celebrate Holy Week
March 23, 2018Each spring the Christian world celebrates the most important week in history—Passion Week or Holy Week, the time between Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his atonement, death, and resurrection. Throughout the world the majority…
Where Can I Turn for Peace?
March 23, 20189/11. For seeming forever, a call for help. Since 2001 a blast of grief swallowed like debris from the heap of rubble and human remains on the streets of Manhattan, of the New York until…
Heart Mountain
March 23, 2018At the Japanese American National Museum
a pile of small stones, most
no bigger than my thumb, each
with a single kanji,
Sexual Morality Revisited
March 23, 2018It’s a boggy acre, surely. Is there any greater conundrum than human sexuality? Is there any aspect of our lives about which it is more difficult to generalize? Is there anything in our experience so…
Resurrection
March 23, 2018What if the Resurrection were not pent
for the vast reendowment of all flesh
but occurred as if by chance, like birth
(that miraculous appointment), and just
as unnoticed. What if these were the terms?:
Relief Society’s Golden Years: The Magazine
March 23, 2018My mother was an enthusiastic, devoted member of the Relief Society—the old Relief Society, the pre-block-meeting-schedule, pre-Correlation Relief Society. She belonged to a Relief Society that LDS women chose to join by paying a small…
“Changing Times Bring Changing Conditions”: Relief Society, 1960 to the Present
March 23, 2018The 1960s marked for Latter-day Saints the commencement of a new era of consolidation and growth that have led to multiple changes in the Relief Society. The organization experienced the automatic enrollment of women in…