Standards Night
March 14, 2018[…] asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk […]
[…] asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk […]
[…] in Vermont, not New York, and the temple in Ohio was never used for marriage sealings ( 6); Martha Heywood was the third, not second, wife of Joseph Heywood (34, photo); and an Illinois […]
[…] meaningfully at Malcolm. Uinta Grocery and Sport was still open . . . if anyone needed to buy a particular something. And maybe some ammo. After his wife slumped snoring against his shoulder, Jake […]
[…] out (more convalescing), and decided to move to Hawaii. Plans for the house we were going to buy fell through, and the thermostat in the house we lived in broke and kept randomly getting […]
[…] her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation of the Provo Tabernacle as a temple have […]
Recently, Dialogue asked Susanna Morrill, associate professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College, to moderate a discussion between Robert Orsi and Richard Lyman Bushman, then chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
[…] then president of the LDS Church and less than three years away from his own death, spoke to a group of people in the Eleventh Ward meetinghouse in Salt Lake City. The past was […]
[…] Spencer W. Kimball was our Church’s first Indian president. An Arizona desert-raised son of a missionary to over twenty nations of Native Americans— “Lamanites,” in Mormon parlance—Kimball focused his vision on these indigenous peoples […]
[…] hymns in unison. But The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long favored congregational part-singing. Nevertheless, a small but vigorous LDS constituency in the past thirty years has advocated a shift to unison-singing.
The Book of Mormon opens with a provocative conundrum: how can the sensory world of revelation most effectively be rendered in language? After introducing himself and his process of making scripture, the prophet-narrator Nephi recounts […]