What the Second Coming Means to People Like Me
August 26, 2020[…] be ready there / To look upon his loving face / And join with him in prayer?”[ 6] That’s the preparation that makes sense to me—to become a person who would feel joy in […]
[…] be ready there / To look upon his loving face / And join with him in prayer?”[ 6] That’s the preparation that makes sense to me—to become a person who would feel joy in […]
[…] in last season’s platitudes from a sleepy suburban mall. The kind a minivan- driving Mormon mom might buy, overripe, in Goodwill two towns away, during a late-spring sun shower the night before the Sabbath. […]
[…] Cracroft, “Fiddlin’ Around in Orderville, or, A Mormon on the Roof,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6, no. 2 (Summer 1971): 118–22; A. Laurence Lyon, “Lyrics and Love in Orderville,” Dialogue: A Journal […]
[…] God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the Order of Aaron, that great Old Testament wingman to Moses, […]
[…] 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