Plucked from the Ashes
April 11, 2018[…] people were. Finally we came to a small, dimly lit room where I had to squint in order to see. I recognized friends who had recently died. Though I waved to them, they made […]
[…] people were. Finally we came to a small, dimly lit room where I had to squint in order to see. I recognized friends who had recently died. Though I waved to them, they made […]
[…] the fact that most families only had a short period of time to get their affairs in order before the husband had to leave. Benjamin F. Johnson, who received his mission call in 1852 […]
[…] up they reveal a human face. Indeed, they are human beings need not sow, labour and harvest in order to live. That is why they ought not to lack the bread which they have sown. […]
October 3, 1992, the first day of the 162d semiannual LDS general conference, was the 300th anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on […]
[…] conservative), but these issues do raise that age-old tension between individual spirituality and the need for institutional order. In spite of the importance of individual initiative, personal revelation, and the equality of all, we […]
Early on, in class, the smooth new pencils, the ice-white paper, copper-bladed rulers, all spoke order, a progression of lines.
Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles at the ford of the Jabbok? Critical exegesis has traditionally identified him as an angel, with reliance upon ample evidence in the text: he appears out of nowhere […]
[…] the fifty “intellectuals” responded with their selections. Leading the list of those most frequently nominated were, in order: B. H. Roberts, Orson Pratt, Joseph Smith, Sterling McMurrin, and James E. Talmage. Since this listing […]
I step outside my New York City apartment, and my eyes become observant, sharp, peeled to anything that moves. I am watching for signs of the Second Coming.
[…] (Fall 1993): 119–140 In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat […]