Short Creek: A Refuge for the Saints
March 27, 2018[…] prepare Short Creek “for the coming of the saints. . .to build a city of Zion and feed eventually millions of people.”[59] A little over a week later, Elders Price W. Johnson and Carl […]
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Spreading Zion Southward, Part II: Sharing Our Loaves and Fishes
March 27, 2018In a 1933 address, Elder Glenn L. Pace asked the question, “Faced with ever louder cries for help from the world, how do we determine where to focus our efforts?” This essay asks a related question: How efficient and equitable is the allocation of the church’s charitable resources? As we compare the distribution of these resources to the poorer, less-developed countries (LDCs) with the distribution to wealthy countries (WCs), could efficiency and equity be improved?
Body Blue: Excerpts from a Novoir
March 27, 2018[…] locked inside metal and glass, fenced off, corralled like cattle and speeding down a chute into the feed lots of the big cities: Ft. Collins. Boulder. Denver. C. J., an optimistic, brimming-with-energy, elf-like blonde […]
First, Mothers and Children: A Postscript to “Moving Zion Southward, Parts I & II”
March 26, 2018[…] same time, the global food supply far exceeds demand. Each year, the amount of food needed to feed the malnourished of the world is simply wasted. The cost of relieving this human suffering is […]
Eternal Love
March 26, 2018[…] not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents. I have compared thee, O my love, to a company […]
Postscript from Iraq: A Flicker of Hope in Conflict’s Moral Twilight
March 26, 2018[…] humble family in a dirty stable, next to the animals, and being put to sleep in a feed trough. It is the story of a poor humble teenage girl, visited by angels, chosen by […]
What Does God Write in His Franklin Planner? The Paradoxes of Providence, Prophecy, and Petitionary Prayer
March 23, 2018[…] him to a battle that will destroy him. He purposely sends lying prophets to him who will feed his pride and facilitate his downfall if he believes them. But He leaves Ahab a way […]
At Bay
March 23, 2018There are no waves on the bay side of the peninsula. The tide simply licks up and back, up and back on the sand shore. Beyond the shore, tall sailboats of vivid blues, greens, and…
The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit?
March 23, 2018[…] brain and the mind plays no real role in directing conscious action or decision. It does not feed information back to the brain or “will” the brain to do anything at all. It is […]
Miracle
March 22, 2018Lucille Wentworth sat in her working on her cross-stitch, watching Judy and Ray hold hands, sitting across from her on the couch. It was late, past one; they’d talked for hours, the conversation flowing around…