[…] the bewildered look on the child’s face when his father said, “Okay, son, here’s the seer stone. Now translate.” On the other hand, Vogel doesn’t avoid embarrassing episodes when the evidence is clear—the arrests, […]
[…] his one brother. All the husbands, uncles, even children. Not me. I delayed when I got the call that Dad was in a coma. It came in the way that kind of news is […]
[…] at the speed of light. I’ve come to realize that this is the perpetual shattering modern people call home. I’ve often felt it’s like living in a huge lost-and-found, of doubling and tripling our […]
[…] for a moment. “Brother Sylvester, the officer who picked you up last night, he gave me a call. I’ll have a talk to the bishops of the other boys, too. That TV newswoman calls […]
[…] as to who was going up or who was going down. I was then spiritually prompted to call Cheryl. We discussed her letter and the possibility of a forum with the editor and some […]
[…] unto God’ and has taken steps publicly in its policies, practices and preachings from the pulpit to call out the sin of racism. But the pains of prejudice persist to this day—in the church […]
[…] that “600 people—some members of L’Église de Jésus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours (LDS Church), some not— call the meetinghouse grounds home.” Andersen expressed joy concerning the help the Church provided to the Haitian […]
[…] to accept state power and the violence associated with it (71). In his recent book Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World, Mason similarly asks Latter-day Saints of the twenty-first century to shed some […]
[…] enough. The others are. That’s not what the stake president says when he releases you from the call to serve a mission. Not at all. But it’s what you tell yourself. Or what the […]
[…] that my work “should have an outsized impact on future endeavors.” All in all, receiving such praise from such prominent scholars, whose work I have greatly admired for years, has been both gratifying and […]