A Time of Decision
April 19, 2018[…] understood his counsel. A society that encourages abortions does tend to lose sight of the value of human life and does begin to feel less responsibility for the conceiving and the bearing of children. […]
[…] understood his counsel. A society that encourages abortions does tend to lose sight of the value of human life and does begin to feel less responsibility for the conceiving and the bearing of children. […]
My earliest memory of my Bluebird class in Primary is cross-stitching a sampler: “I will light up my home.” Our teacher admonished us to embroider carefully because we would want our samplers to hang in…
[…] of the glasses merely, the spectacles in question being altogether too large for the breadth of the human face (Charles Anthon letter to E. D. Howe, 17 Feb. 1834, in Mormonism Unvailed, p. 17). […]
[…] God and the book of Job would not have been written. And its value is beyond any human calculation. It was part of the Lord’s plan for the mortal world to follow. The eternal […]
In a revelation received 4 February 1831, Edward Partridge was called to be the first bishop in the newly formed Church of Jesus Christ. Before that time, the Church’s structure consisted of elders, priests, teachers,…
[…] reasoned answers to probing queries about the gospel. It is equally significant that, whether by default or design, his successor was Joseph Fielding Smith who renamed the series “Answers to Gospel Questions” and proceeded […]
[…] Kushner contradicts him self. In one chapter he defends the idea of agency and its part in human experience: “The murder and the robbery . . . represent that aspect of reality which stands […]
[…] These families aren’t famous, even in Church circles. But we could identify with these representatives of the human foundation upon which Mormonism was built. We could envision our ancestors rubbing shoulders with these convert-emigrants […]
[…] disjointed and lack direct connections to Morris himself. This volume makes an important contribution to understanding the human experience. Throughout history varieties of religious millennialist movements have existed. To learn why people are attracted […]
[…] I began to hear, first faintly, then louder, P. A. Christensen’s resonant voice talking of “depth of human experience,” echoing Matthew Arnold’s concerns with “the best that has been thought and said in the […]