Promise to Grandma
April 17, 2018[…] movin’ Sarah down here because I know if I don’t get anything for her to eat, you’ll feed her,” but that doesn’t fit very well with my mother and Nell’s recollections that Vic was […]
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And Baby Makes Two: Choosing Single Motherhood
April 17, 2018[…] Because he’s the only other person in our family, I have always been prompt to change him, feed him, or entertain him. He rarely fusses or sulks. If he wants something, he either gets […]
Eastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions
April 17, 2018[…] summer of 1846. Rather, the top priority now be came finding a winter location large enough to feed and shelter the oncoming thousands of uprooted Latter-day Saints in a frontier wilderness and among Pottawattamie, […]
Turning
April 17, 2018In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go home. It was a Fourth of July weekend and I was sunburned, sleepy, and not much in the mood for testimonies about the star-spangled banner. Besides that, I was hungry. But when the sacrament was over, I stayed. I thought my motivation was guilt, but now I know it was grace.
A Celebration of Sisterhood
April 17, 2018I recently completed a short season of speaking at Mormon women’s conferences, largely related to Relief Society. I do not do this as a professional speaker. I don’t sell books, and (at the moment) I…
House of the Temple, House of the Lord: A View from Philadelphia
April 17, 2018[…] the spout of frigid water from a rustic pump. Once we began a rather bucolic walk to feed scraps to the ducks who inhabited a tiny portion of the lake kept liquid by a […]
Scriptural Horror and the Divine Will
April 16, 2018[…] medical practice to serve in the slums of Calcutta with Mother Teresa or, closer to home, to feed the poor in Lowell Bennion’s soup kitchen. Instead, when modern persons act consistently with ancient standards […]
Getting Everything Wrong (Even What He Gets Right)
September 27, 2011[…] who dressing in fine clothes, putting on airs, and failing ” to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted” […]
The Crisis in Europe and Hugh B. Brown’s First Mission Presidency
April 16, 2018Mary Firmage, daughter of President Hugh B. Brown, has recently deposited a large collection of her father’s personal letters in the Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president…
A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents
April 16, 2018[…] things objectively,” he said, “on the salary I’m likely to make, I could probably not afford to feed, clothe, and educate any children. Does this mean I should not get married?” A Relief Society […]