Failed Friendship
April 16, 2018[…] talent, energy. Her secret heart! Dear God! She gave her deepest trust! Now she must share this community of Christ, yet live a separate sisterhood again. “Oh Mother,” she prays, […]
[…] talent, energy. Her secret heart! Dear God! She gave her deepest trust! Now she must share this community of Christ, yet live a separate sisterhood again. “Oh Mother,” she prays, […]
[…] had become hoarse, unfinished, a foghorn of complaint: some jock-hating paranoid had given him a D in English, his blue pullover had been put in the dryer and now it was too tight, where […]
[…] constructed temples for God’s work. The construction of temples in Kirtland and Nauvoo was followed by ground- breaking for the Salt Lake Temple, built in the Gothic Revival style popular during the nineteenth century […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] letter from the stake missionaries, telling us of the sorrow of couples who were not able to share eternity together. He occasionally heard talks in sacrament meeting by family members who were praying for […]
Stan Larson’s article “The Odyssey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson” (DIALOGUE, Spring 1990) showed the world some of the backstage drama accompanying efforts of Book of Mormon enthusiasts to link the book with demonstrable reality. […]
[…] relationship and fueled the couple’s anticipation of reunion. Tragically, as Martha feared, the Cannons were destined to share the fate of the famous star-crossed lovers, Heloise and Abelard, whose graves Martha visited. In a […]
[…] currency. Thus we get “the spiritually attuned public relations and marketing specialist” in a corporation merchandising “free- market Christianity,” and we get “a sort of spiritual wellness spot check” in a teenager’s interview with […]
[…] are only various stake and mission presidents and regional representatives, each with limited jurisdiction. When a major news story with religious implications breaks, as, for example, the Rushdie affair, the death of a pope, […]
[…] Martha Spence Heywood (Woodruff 1983-84, 4:333, 398, 403, 407; Beecher 1981, 148). However, Jedediah Grant did not share their enthusiasm for the organization. Perhaps he thought these programs detracted from spirituality, perhaps he thought […]