Joseph Smith and the Sources of Love
May 4, 2018[…] *** We have thought that we must separate our love of God from our love of the world. In one sense, yes. But the Prophet taught that God, who formed and beautified this world, […]
[…] *** We have thought that we must separate our love of God from our love of the world. In one sense, yes. But the Prophet taught that God, who formed and beautified this world, […]
[…] Precisely this, he explained, was the problem. Brother Boulder had, it was true, a great deal of worldly learning — which was, no doubt, commendable in its place — but at the same time […]
[…] the band launched into “A Tout le Monde,” a song about a man saying goodbye to the world at the end of his life. Jesus leaned over to Tregan and shouted over the sound […]
[…] the county fair. Erval Feldsted had a warm spot for schemes like this. No reason in the world why his children should feel bad that other dads took their kids to baseball games. If […]
[…] the impoverished and downtrodden masses, and his grandiose plans for a future that had us saving the world from tyranny and environmental annihilation. I couldn’t finish the letters, nor could I respond with equal […]
[…] implicitly, with a predictably positive flourish: In the twentieth century the Church became, in a real sense, world-wide, as its membership spread beyond the isolation of the Intermountain West, and as other historical forces […]
[…] nations” (Matthew 28:19). Their field of labor was to be not just Israel or Rome, but the world. They had previously been instructed that their “neighbor” included anyone in distress (Luke 10:30-37). Their commission […]
[…] breadlines. I am over thirty and I can recall with little effort the effects of the second World War—rationing of food and gasoline, tin can drives and the gathering of milk pods from fields around […]
[…] through his concentration on politics. The Mormon commonwealth served as both a self-contained refuge from the outside world and the locus for a society that would establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In […]
[…] being printed or even examined.” Howe, in concluding, felt confident in holding “out Sidney Rigdon to the world as .. . the original ‘author and proprietor’ of the whole Mormon conspiracy. . . ,” […]