[…] message about creation. Instead the two creation stories are for emphasis, inculcating “the necessary fact, that the world existed only from the time when it was created…,” The change from Elohim to the more […]
[…] this conversion phenome non is also occurring outside the European continent. A recent piece in the Church News referred to the perception among Costa Rican Mormon leaders that immigrants from neighboring and poorer Nicaragua […]
[…] Brigham Young” and other church officials covered the years to 1844 and was published in the Deseret News (Salt Lake City) and Millennial Star, 1863- 65. In subsequent years church historians and assistant church […]
[…] who sat in the shadowed stillness of that fine building. Diversity of Interest If the ability to share in music together was one minor aspect of this conference, a major feature lay in its […]
[…] man with three other wives and nine children. He was over fifty. The night I heard the news, I started to cry. I tried to get Sharlene to explain it to me. She told […]
[…] point out that there are necessities that exist internally to any given symbolic system. For example, in English, All bachelors are unmarried’ is necessarily true. This is the case even though the word ‘bachelor’ […]
[…] the voices said, and Adam followed them. From the ledge he would be able to see the world as God did—from above, from a distance. He followed the course of the stream, up the […]
[…] me I must try. I approach this subject of moral interpretation fully aware of my limitations. I share with you now less a speck of accumulated wisdom than a philosophy of how to go […]
[…] in the next life warning that “those who attempt to prevent their offspring from coming into the world in obedience to this great command, are guilty of one of the most heinous crimes in […]
[…] missed out on by not going. I would like to be fluent in a language other than English (again, my romanticism presumed I wouldn’t go stateside or to an English speaking mission). My two […]