Dealing with Difficult Questions
January 24, 2020[…] that is very elusive and that may take a lifetime to find. I hope you’ll forgive me for following a written text fairly closely, but I’m a writer, not a speaker, and because of […]
[…] that is very elusive and that may take a lifetime to find. I hope you’ll forgive me for following a written text fairly closely, but I’m a writer, not a speaker, and because of […]
[…] storm perhaps, and is the chill she feels a premonition? Or is it simple bad humor, a wife’s irritation with a husband who squanders money on steamship tickets when they’re saving to buy a farm?
[…] family to stop living abroad and settle near her in Blackfoot, Idaho. Kimball’s letter to her dated 6–6-66 said the Church needed more families like her daughter’s to work abroad and support missionaries and […]
[…] perish . . . .” This is the lesson we learned from our first mother, Eve (Genesis 3:20): human beings were not meant to rest in comfortable stagnation. We were designed to continue learning […]
[…] the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. The best way, as discussed by […]
Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85 Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity
[…] discipline will escalate into what the law in my time would frankly call abuse. I know he’ll buy a dairy farm in Alpine to try working his oldest son into compliance. I know he’ll […]
[…] prophets who led Israel together. The bishop looked doubtful and worried, so I read Exodus 15:20–21, Micah 6:4, and Numbers 12:1–8, which consoled him. The young women loved it, they were saying, “Miriam was […]
[…] this era when so many forces seek to divide us, we are dedicated to being a force for unity. Earlier this fall, President Russell M. Nelson called for members to use the Church’s full […]
Religious practice is shifting from churches to the internet in what some critics call a “post-denominational era.”One early commentator predicted that “the web would reduce us to a virtual community of believers practicing a […]