Brattle Street Elegy: Matzoh for Sacrament
March 17, 2018I first entered the Longfellow Park chapel on September 4, 1977. It was fast Sunday. I was a new physics grad student at MIT and a convert, baptized only about six months previously. This […]
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Brattle Street Elegy: Treasures
March 17, 2018[…] the generations of friends and mentors I met in that building. Its destruction by fire is stunning news. Happily the experiences and memories, wrestlings and witnesses that affected me in that building are worked […]
Truman Madsen, Architect
March 17, 2018Truman Madsen was a speaker extraordinaire, one of the finest orators in the Church, able to speak extemporaneously in a captivating voice. Alert to his audience, he was able to thread the pieces of […]
Characters to Care About | Jonathan Langford, No Going Back
March 16, 2018[…] sanctimony. Of course, it didn’t start with California’s Proposition 8. No, that river’s path pushes back, through the ’90s and the Church’s involvement with the matter of gay marriage in Hawaii, to the experiences […]
Pirouettes on Strings | Phyllis Barber, Raw Edges
March 16, 2018[…] ragged selves fit seamlessly into humanity, and how this unity can salve our individual wounds. Indeed, Barber’s search for self ends as a plea for personal transcendence: “Help me out of myself, please” (214). […]
from “A Paris Journal”
March 16, 2018[…] * * * So far the only testimony I’ve understood completely: a tourist from Japan speaking in English and being translated into French. He arrived this morning and was still undecided: attend church or […]
Truly Significant | Edward Leo Lyman, Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889–1895
March 16, 2018Abraham H. Cannon was Mormon aristocracy. The son of long-time First Presidency member George Q. Cannon, he accepted a call as an apostle at age thirty. During the latter portion of his life, the […]
Speculations: Wine/Oil
March 16, 2018Christ was perfect. Christ turned water to wine at the wedding at Cana. Did Christ create the perfect wine?
Uncertainty and Healing
March 16, 2018[…] things have been on my mind recently. They have provoked a lot of thought and research. Over the past months, I have spent hours on the internet perusing medical studies, Church websites, and countless […]
A Big Task for a Small Book | Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography
March 16, 2018Paul Gutjahr’s The Book of Mormon: A Biography is one of the inaugural offerings from Princeton University Press’s Lives of Great Religious Books—a series that proposes a new lens for studying major religious texts […]