Kate Holbrook

Kate Holbrook was an American historian and writer. She worked as the managing historian of women's history in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Beings I Love Are Creatures

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about mortality—meetings and partings and human frailty. The poet Geoffrey Hill is retiring from teaching at Boston University this year, and a few weeks ago I heard that he had said life gets easier when you accept the fact that you live in a fallen world. Wilbur Jackson of our bishopric furthered the development of my thought on this topic during that wonderful fifth-Sunday April meeting when he reminded us that we’ve left Paradise. We’re not in Paradise; it’s gone, so we’re going to suffer, get sick, sin, and die. The important thing, Jackson reminded us, is to be on the right path so we can return to Paradise.

A Sacrament of Stewardship

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4