[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]
[…] was something else out there, a better way to live. Only by braving their father’s wrath, by breaking with Catholicism and joining the Mormons and enduring his total, albeit temporary, rejection, had they been […]
[…] leave me here; take me with you.” But she went alone and left me to face the world without her—a world from which the focus of meaning had gone. My reason for doing everything […]
[…] can become. Sex is sanctioned within marriage, especially when the intent is to bring children into the world. Unfortunately, the messages urging restraint and the warnings against sexual sin, even between husband and wife, […]
[…] Zion is the pure in heart, Those who seek the Savior’s part. Zion soon in all the world Will rise to meet her God. (Hymn #47) On every branch of my family tree, I’ve […]
[…] the stifling warmth of humid summer through the open window. I smiled. She smiled. What in the world are we going to do for the rest of the morning? I wondered. It soon became […]
[…] on his protection, should quit the care of all the rest and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple? And, on the other […]
[…] even in my silent personal musings. Their ideal, as it unfolded in subsequent conversations, was a theocratic world made safe and sure not only by the absence of dissenting voices, but also by the […]
[…] members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but around the world. Such efforts have hardly added up to an all-out “war,” but there has certainly been a […]
[…] and the God of Jacob, and be saved. 5 Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who […]