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The Epiphany by Melodie Jackson

For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. It was around midday. 12:30 to be exact. You can have some hallucinatory experiences around that time. Especially when you haven’t eaten and the…

Getting Out/ Staying In: One Mormon/ Gay Marriage: Staying In

by Ben Christensen Originally published in Fall 2005 I WROTE “GETTING OUT” as a somewhat naive twenty-four-year-old. Now I return, in theory a wise and mature twenty-five-year-old. Inevitably, I’ll find whatever I write here equally…

Blessing the Chevrolet

By Eugene England Originally published in Autumn 1974 At various times I have heard and read, with mild curiosity, of the anointing of animals by the power of the priesthood in pioneer times, but it…

Trial of Faith

by John Donald Gustav-Wrathall Originally published in Volume 40, Number 2 (Summer 2007) On a recent visit to Utah, I was excited to attend church with my parents at their LDS ward. Regular attendance at…

The Weight of Priesthood

by Stephen Carter I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD one March Sunday. The chapel curtains were bright with the springtime sun, as if angels were standing outside. The church itself was new, built only a year…