If you have never read a poem by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to catch up. Take it. If you have read poems by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to enjoy […]
For a good portion of my life, I didn’t understand how Jesus fit into the equation. I prayed to Heavenly Father and so I felt like I had some sort of connection to him […]
This is how Douglas Thayer often greeted me when we met in the hallway of the Jesse Knight Building, where both of us taught for years. I wonder if I was the only person […]
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When I heard the news that Stephen Webb had passed away on March 5, 2016, I mourned the loss.
According to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter, “the LDS church” or “LDS Mormonism”), Joseph Smith’s motivation to start a new religious movement began with a particularly difficult […]
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