The Sacred Shout
April 17, 2018[…] Church leaders led special performances of the shout in hundreds of wards and branches through out the world on the same day and, where possible, at the same time (CR April 1930, 2; Clark […]
[…] Church leaders led special performances of the shout in hundreds of wards and branches through out the world on the same day and, where possible, at the same time (CR April 1930, 2; Clark […]
[…] was a favorite, a paraphrase of I Corinthians 1:27: “God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise” (Gregg 1890, 37). Perhaps Harris saw something of himself in the passage. […]
[…] this assignment. In truth, most of the men were happy to go since digging gold was back- breaking work, and they had also experienced much sickness in recent months. “The turn of things was […]
[…] story,” I would say, begging him to take me along the beam of his voice into a world that seemed more brightly colored and richly textured than the rose-carpeted room in which we sat, […]
[…] personal salvation through Jesus Christ, the divinity of Christ, and the importance of being separate from the world. Baptist, Church of Christ, Evangelical, and Pentecostal denominations were classified as conservatives; their means ranged from […]
[…] of her, telling Maggie Smith/Margaret Masters/Rosie stories, remember ing the many names with which she faced the world and the singular love that was her face to us. I told about the first time […]
[…] 700 B.C.; whether they were initially white; by what route and means they came to the new world; and the level of their civilization, including the state of their metallurgy. He argues, much as […]
[…] the preface to The Haunted Fifties by I. F. Stone: “If there is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, it is the willingness to obey.” Satan would be […]
[…] a feeling not just of belonging to the Church, but also of belonging in society, in this world, as a human being relating to other humans. I know now that I am a Mormon: it […]
[…] sketches of official pronouncements and individual beliefs about such issues as sin, the devil, death, the spirit world, resurrection, relationship to God, trials and suffering, con tact with non-Mormons, persecutions, and attitudes on public […]