The Trial of the French Mission
April 16, 2018[…] never been easy in the French Mission. Full-scale missionary work dated from the end of the First World War, yet in 1957, 130 missionaries baptized only 110 converts and a mere thirty of those […]
[…] never been easy in the French Mission. Full-scale missionary work dated from the end of the First World War, yet in 1957, 130 missionaries baptized only 110 converts and a mere thirty of those […]
[…] best describe my marriage experience by addressing my comments to my husband. Dick, sometimes I think that the best times and the worst times of our marriage have nothing to do with our two […]
[…] right out and said that, but close enough: “You’re a very sweet girl, Tracy. We think the world of you—we really do, but . . .” What we really think you ought to do […]
[…] that in myself. Although I was a successful manager of computer projects, and confident in the business world, I didn’t have social confidence. Before going out dancing or to a party, I would drink […]
[…] a great hatred for these outsiders and their church. After getting married and entering the white man’s world to earn a living, my wife, Theresa, and I had occasional visits from the Mormons. They […]
[…] Pixton, who is in the U.S. Navy, joined the Church in Italy and has lived throughout the world. Elijah Royster has lived only in Hawaii as a Latter-day Saint but previously traveled in the […]
Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles at the ford of the Jabbok? Critical exegesis has traditionally identified him as an angel, with reliance upon ample evidence in the text: he appears out of nowhere […]
[…] just reformative or cosmetic changes, are going to be necessary to alter women’s oppressed situation in our world. I am generally more sympathetic to revisioning and rethinking than I am to reform, because our […]
[…] this gospel (where the very hairs of our heads are numbered) versus the nomothetic nature of the world? It appears so huge, and we appear so tiny in it. It reminds me of a […]
[…] For our pioneer ancestors, worship was not a running away or withdrawal from the battles of the world; neither was it an ostrich-like refusal to look problems in the face. They could not, even […]