I was angry. Angry that George W. Bush stole Al Gore’s election. Angry that the Supreme Court, divided on ideological lines, had stopped the Florida recount. Angry that the ideal of “family values” was being used to justify laws that I believed ultimately hurt American families. And I was angry at how Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” …
Question: I’ve suffered from clinical depression since I was a teenager. Recently, someone told about an article by an LDS writer arguing that since Satan can’t tempt many of us into making really wrong choices, he inflicts depression on us instead, using it as a way to lie to us about our worth and ability …
Mine was empty except for a vague dampness, a condensation, at most a sprinkle, not enough to stick a stamp or wet one’s whistle, a fly could lick it clean and die of thirst, yet I was content to live in the desert and flower each year like prickly pear cactus, my days a series …
The air is cold, but that isn’t why I’m shaking. The text came while I was picking an outfit for a job interview later that day. “Did you hear about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?” my friend asked. I was confused. We were both Mormon, so what could the MoTab have possibly done to make her …
I didn’t stay up the evening of the election. I decided that, whatever happened, I would be better prepared to deal with the results with a good night’s sleep. Sadly, that sleep evaporated at about 4 a.m. When this kind of thing happens, I tell my body, “Look, I’m always battling sleepiness when I try …
As with the Egyptians, it begins by removing the brain. Gray matter caught on the hooked edge of a new name, then pulled through the nose. They leave the heart. It is easily bruised by new and everlasting covenants battered by promises to hearken, to serve, priestesses dressed in their burial clothes, given unto him. …
I attended three worship services one Sunday: an LDS service, a Community of Christ service, and a heavy metal concert. Turns out, all three together helped me understand each one individually. This very odd but cathartic Sunday began at the Kirtland Temple for an LDS young single adult testimony and sacrament service, followed by hearing …
We and the prophet have no language in common. To us the moral state of society, for all its stains and spots, seems fair and trim; to the prophet it is dreadful. So many deeds of charity are done, so much decency radiates day and night; yet to the prophet satiety of the conscience is …
By Charles Elden Kingston CHARLES ELDEN KINGSTON became interested in history while serving a mission in Salt Lake City at the Church History Library. He is the great-grandson of Charles William Kingston. Or download the audio file here: The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston The stories of church founders are never complete …
By Stephen Carter A friend of mine who works in the Church History Department once said that for every person who leaves the Church because of its history, two leave because of boredom. His estimate is probably conservative. I’m sure the Church has put time and resources into figuring out how to unbore its …
