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For many, Kirtland is viewed as the genesis of Mormonism as a viable church and perhaps the best test case of Joseph Smith’s prophetic claims and personal integrity. As such, interest in the history […]
we will dream now of a cave with a figure at the entrance, see the magic seeds she holds
Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
The Hawaiians are surprised that we also had beaches. In their minds we represent one vast igloo Filled with people anxious to escape To winter in Hawaii.
As you enter the water unsinning, I shall repent eight years Of watching in the dark and loving Without turning on the light.
Perhaps the Roman historian Tacitus put it as well as anyone when he ‘wrote that “history’s highest function” is “to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity […]