[…] trying to teach you a lesson. God is testing you. God punishes those he loves. It’s probably for the best. It could be a lot worse. God gives people what they deserve. Did you […]
[…] it may be that all of us would do well to get, in some ways, closer still. For a people who manage to watch 251 murders a year on TV, we Americans—and more especially […]
[…] complete, it is a sacrilege to ornament them; and because the Brethren are divinely called as stewards over the modern relevance of the text, it is a sacrilege for anyone else to expound upon […]
[…] 39–45 This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied […]
[…] the Church 24 May 1845, but five months later was rejected as apostle and patriarch at the 6 October 1845 general conference. Official church history records the objection to William: “He aspires to uproot […]
Dialogue 16. 3 (Autumn 1983): 68–69 I would like to discuss teh social experience of historical Latter-day Saint single women in the context of five questions: (1) Does she have an acceptable reason for […]
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
[…] After all, man was given his abilities in the beginning to use in tending the garden (13: 3). And since the Fall he must work even harder to push back the resulting tide of […]
[…] Jesus Christ himself, promising the faithful they are sealed up unto “eternal life” (D&C 131:5, 130:5, 88: 3-4; John 14:23). It may be well to remind ourselves again that even church leaders who demand […]
[…] shop or from neighbor to neighbor, to borrow and return, to ask for help and give, to buy and sell, I saw him doing the truth and felt safe. One June dawn we drove […]