[…] If revelation is the “words of God”—that is, if God dictated the revelation word for word in English to Joseph Smith, who had them written exactly as dictated—then changing a single word or even […]
[…] day care and school routines, and I was starting a part-time but seemingly glamorous and progressive job- share situation with my sister in the financial department of Huntsman Chemical Corporation. But our 1984 Christmas […]
[…] had become very interested in writing and literature, so I enrolled at Brigham Young University as an English major. At BYU, I was inspired by President Spencer W. Kimball’s speech, “The Gospel Vision of […]
[…] politician visits Salt Lake City or the Polynesian Cultural Center, these stories invariably appear in the Church News. When I was at BYU, a favorite story was about the Pope’s nephew joining the Church and […]
[…] is element’” (9). I doubt that a fallen, mortal language can ensure our ability to interpret the world. We are mortal and fallible, as is our language, and any sense we make of the […]
[…] me even the slightest insinuation that God was keeping a tally so he could punish me for breaking some law, although I am sure there were times they wished he would have taken a […]
[…] initiated excommunication proceedings against McMurrin. When David O. McKay, then president of the Mormon church, heard the news he called McMurrin on the phone and arranged to meet him that same afternoon at the […]
[…] his friendship and religious fealty remained essentially intact. What for many other men would have been the breaking straw came when Joseph made a direct attack on the unity and sanctity of Law’s own […]
[…] repeating the words after him” (Noble, qtd. in ‘An Interesting Occasion. Something Relating to Celestial Marriage,” Deseret News, 11 June 1883, in Journal History, 11 June 1883). See also A. Karl Larson and Katharine […]
[…] something bad happening to me. Jack was looking like the rattled folk you see on the TV news. Had those eyes. He stood by the Nova and said, “It has me spooked is all […]