According to his official history, that’s all Joseph Smith said to his mother after God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him while he prayed by himself in the woods. Whether or not […]
[…] the elevator out of the metro and emerged onto a campus with what looked for all the world to me like a castle—next to a Byzantine dome, near an English country manor house. U […]
[…] the cold embrace of death; while the great, the good, the blessed and the holy of this world would awake from the gloom of the grave and be renovated, filled with life and joy, […]
[…] venture to guess that almost anyone who might be called such has taken occasional flights into the world of speculation, and has frequently emphasized the value of reason in the quest for truth, even […]
[…] editorials in Church publications and sacrament meeting, stake conference, and general conference addresses—Mormons see about them a world abounding in wickedness. Judging also from these same indicators, plus the Melchizedek Priesthood, Relief Society and […]
[…] of the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in 1830, the religious world generally was antagonistic to the idea of leisure time being spent in any way other than […]
[…] in one of his “Believe it or Not” features as the only straight Main Street in the world having the same river at both ends. The modern city of Nauvoo is located to the […]
[…] reassurance that God’s foreknowledge is absolute and exerts no causative force on events can rebuild my real world for me. A world where time, with all its sense of reality and significance, disappears into […]
[…] New Mexico to Africa, we have relocated our central editorial office in Los Angeles. Robert Rees, who teaches English at UCLA, is the new chief editor; he has organized editorial associates there and has a […]
[…] we knew the details of that unique ceremony where ten thousand priesthood leaders from all over the world, gathered in the Tabernacle, had sustained a new President of the Church and witnessed directly the […]