What the Church Means to People Like Me
May 4, 2018[…] I am unique. By the time I have finished there may be some among you who will share that hope. Yet I have chosen the topic because I believe that in some important respects […]
[…] I am unique. By the time I have finished there may be some among you who will share that hope. Yet I have chosen the topic because I believe that in some important respects […]
[…] in both languages has been translated by Protestant missionaries and many interpretations of doctrine differ from the English version and from Mormon teachings. (For example, the word “priesthood” does not appear in the Japanese […]
[…] decided to stop advertising cigarettes on their television stations.” “Where?” I took the paper and lead the news release, taking an extra long time so that I could answer his question properly. “You see,” […]
[…] a Church. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, ed (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1942), p. 366. Elder Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1966, p. 64. Journal of […]
[…] Follet Discourse,” Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938). This argument is developed in the third lecture. See Lectures on Faith, comp. N. […]
[…] old brother” (in “Triple Treehouse”; the brother is apparently two years older than the speaker). No freshman English teacher, I hope, would let those pass by. Finally, the idiom is simply and flatly prosaic; […]
[…] 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 […]
Notes and comments are not merely short articles or long letters; they are varied, informal glimpses of Mormon thought and life. The Editors welcome news, profiles, opinions, accounts, speeches and other items that seem appropriate.
[…] Jehovah.” Although, like its predecessors, this hymnal contains no tunes, 20 of its selections are provided with English sub-captions. It can be imagined that the German-speaking Saints may have had difficulty associating these newly-translated […]
How does an English graduate student who wants a visit to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one […]