[…] nod in agreement as you read, “The main historical legacy that each of us will leave this world will be in the form of our influence in the lives of others. Precisely because of […]
[…] new name?) but risen to admiration through the years, as in Mormon Tabernacle Choir, known, beloved, admired world-wide. How easy it was. All that went before was an “error,” a stupid mistake, a maudlin […]
[…] noncritical way—both as a recognition of their own identity and a validation of their relevance in the world; and (3) for brevity—with a single word, “Mormon” or “Mormonism” get to the point and make […]
Today, I went to the new initiatory session. When I arrived, the cute workers excitedly whispered to each other, “we have a patron!” I was the first of the day. It felt so good […]
For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. Being a black Latter-day Saint and knowing that Elijah Abel was ordained to the priesthood reinforces my belief that God is no respecter […]
Six months after she’d divorced her most recent husband, Sue kicked back the silk sheets one chilly morning and decided to take back her maiden name. She packed her bags, grabbed a cab to […]
[…] at the Church with rose-colored glasses. When Laman asks, ”Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where faith and courage were all that was required to get what you wanted?” (78), he […]
Armed lightly with his dark English wit, and a shade of amber from Woodpecker Ale, Trevor’s blue eyes glaze a smile as he reclines at the market fountain in Cambridge, just like a Roman […]
[…] and breathless in its intensity, while the denouement offers little by way of resolution, instead proffering a world of small miracles, that to some might not seems like miracles at all, as fuel for […]
The Gospel of Mark repeatedly echoes the Hebrew Bible: from the extensive thematic and verbal parallels between Jesus’ calming of the sea and the story of Jonah to the quotation of a single […]