Glimmers and Glitches in Zion
April 12, 2018[…] Zion is the pure in heart, Those who seek the Savior’s part. Zion soon in all the world Will rise to meet her God. (Hymn #47) On every branch of my family tree, I’ve […]
[…] Zion is the pure in heart, Those who seek the Savior’s part. Zion soon in all the world Will rise to meet her God. (Hymn #47) On every branch of my family tree, I’ve […]
At age sixty-eight I have lived long enough to know some of the sorrows of this life. More than once I have cried out with the Psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry unto […]
[…] everyone to be saved, but baptism has not been an option for a great portion of the world’s population, let alone baptism by the proper authority. These people can still be saved, but they […]
[…] was not accepted because it was a lie and a delusion. It would lead to a frozen world of outer darkness—not because of punishment but because it would fail to be integrative and creative. […]
[…] less in others, such as Joseph Fielding Smith. Mormons disdain worldliness but seek the adoration of the world. We seek approval, work hard to form and manage the world’s perception of us, and feel […]
[…] be privileged in public policy; then the church could and should do the same. In the real world, how ever, and not just in the United States, every government legitimates or otherwise privileges some […]
[…] of Mormon Thought.”[1] For many of us old enough to have watched it, that launch was a world-turning event, more adventurous even than Apollo. The tumult and euphoria in the early letters is palpable, […]
Much has been written about the heroines in Virginia Sorensen’s adult fiction, their real-life counterparts, and inspirations. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to her male characters and the family figures on […]
[…] but neither the time nor inclination to take it. For example, it was a common practice in World War I to avoid eating before going “over the top” in the belief that a soldier […]
[…] can’t I? [1] Another definition of “fusion” is instructive. From Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged), 1983: “in optics, the act of bringing the eyes in visual line so that […]