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April 2, 2018[…] but I seemed so separated from them that to me they never really were problems, just distant news stories. Now I was bombarded constantly. When it got to be too much, we climbed the […]
[…] but I seemed so separated from them that to me they never really were problems, just distant news stories. Now I was bombarded constantly. When it got to be too much, we climbed the […]
[…] I vote for Bill Clinton? Ought I go to the temple tonight? Should I announce that I am gay or lesbian? Ought I live with my boyfriend? My morality assumes that I can decide. […]
[…] for me to embrace the church. You’re a sixty-eight-year-old priesthood holder, he told me (in fact, I am seventy-one). Put the last of your life in God’s hands. Mostly I was friendly. I said […]
[…] noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.
[…] must decide whether to work or to play. Suppose first that you can predict which one I am going to do. That has no effect on me at all: I must still decide what […]
[…] could link him to the alleged deeds. Into the middle of this storm broke a piece of news. The DNA of Thomas Jefferson’s paternal uncle had been compared to the DNA of the descendants […]
[…] privy to. But the bad boy playwright from Provo also seems to have created Latter-day Saints whose stories (even as they tell them) are far from the rosy, family-centered picture we get elsewhere—from 50 […]
[…] the first principles and ordinances of the gospel. We have discounted the greatest principles of the good news—faith, hope, and charity. Let me suggest that our faith would be strengthened and our spiritual experiences […]
[…] There are several instances in modern revelation indicating that God’s knowledge is limited. For example, the Church News observed that Jonah’s revoked prophecy has important implications: This incident is instructive because it shows that […]
[…] stepped to the front and shook hands with them. They seemed pleased to see me, and I am sure I was glad to see them. Al though, I do not care much for a […]