The Transfiguration of Brigham Young - An overview of what is taught as the miraculous event that let members know Brigham Young was chosen by God to lead the church following Joseph Smith's death: the Transfiguration of Brigham Young. I look at what the church teaches against what the contem...
I should have expected it, but I’m still hurt. I just noticed that my favorite mission companion unfriended me on Facebook. He’s no longer anywhere on my friends list and yet he’s on mutual friends’ lists. I’m not exactly sure what I did to deserve such a dramatic move. He ...
Maybe the only thing I really believe right now, is that I am not alone here, on this edge. I know my story is not unique. We are all good at thedoing. The doing, no matter what is on that list, or how tightly it threatens to strangle us, is a matter of overcoming inertia. B...
The Prophet Moroni taught“… whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God,which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding ingood works, being ...
The prophet Joseph Smith taught:Continue reading→ Posted inBook: Alive in Christ|1 Comment What Was God? What Was Praying, She Asked Posted onbyJared This was published in the Deseret News Feb 7, 2018.Here Jiyeon Song excitedly moves through a pile of 20 or so presents at her baby show...
Alimony: What Brigham Young and Joseph Smith never paid to their plural ex-wives. Allay: What Joseph Smith pursued to sooth his sexual urges. All Saints Day: Christian holiday which excludes Saints of the Latter-day kind. Alma Mater: A prestigious institution of higher learning in Zaraheml...
Well, get ready for disappointment, because this lesson is about the saddest list of spiritual gifts you’ve ever seen. Reading Section 46 came at a time when Mormons were getting pretty enthusiastic in meetings. They wouldflop around, yell and scream, and have a great time. Then Joseph Smi...
"Why I believe—it's very simple, I guess. It's just the feelings I get when I pray, when I read, when I go to church, when I take the sacrament. . . . I have found that, you know, what we're taught with standards in the Church really is a happy way to live. . . . ...
Mormon was copied from, or founded on the manuscript of Spaulding, and year after year new recruits have appeared and made unproved assertions to this same statement, and here is the last, with an appearance of being substantiated -- but really acting just the reverse of what was intended....
Prophets, Priests and Kings is a page-turner, if a doctrinal commentary can be such. I was fascinated, not only by what I learned about the men and women of ancient days, but also about myself. The Pearl of Great Price: A Verse by Verse CommentaryBy Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brow...