Category: Issue 168

The Legacy of Lazaraus: Poetry

By Jerome L. McElroy   No one knew how the two leagues apart in distance and ambition became so tightly bound in flesh death could not shear asunder.   Perhaps a childhood misadventure or adolescent fantasy sewed their souls together so there was no crease between them.   Lazarus the confidant was the one who …

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The Roots of My Faith–Part II

By Eric Samuelsen Continued from Part I My high school experiences taught me two lessons that I’ve clung to my whole life. First, the Book of Mormon invites the Spirit. That is to say, reading it engenders feelings that seem to me to have been externally generated. Though I still had doubts and questions, I …

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The Roots of My Faith–Part I

By Eric Samuelsen     Or right-click here to download the audio file: The Roots of My Faith     I grew up Bloomington, Indiana, a college town some fifty miles south of Indianapolis. Bloomington was torn between town and gown, between blue-collar locals and academics. From my house, we could hear stock car racing …

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Discerning a Spirit

By James P. Harris Elder James E. Talmage was cautious when writing about spiritual experiences in his journal. For instance, when he would refer to something profoundly moving that had happened during a meeting of the Twelve and First Presidency, he would typically write something like, “This was a day long to be remembered by …

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The BYU Meme-ery

Every college and university has its quirks and inside jokes. BYU, with its mix of super smart, Intenet-savvy students immersed in both campus and very visible LDS culture, is perhaps among the quirkiest/insideriest. It is no surprise, then, to find that one of the biggest campus hits (both in terms of phenomena and Facebook page …

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“Thy Virgin Paths”

By Curt Bench Mormon bookselling provides many fun moments that provide my staff and me with life-long smiles. Whereas my June 2012 column might very well have been titled “People in LDS Bookstores Say the Darndest Things,” this one could easily be called, “Mormons Ask for the Darndest Titles.” Over the years, often by phone …

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Korihor and the Struggle with a Lost Testimony

By Michael Vinson The devil hath deceived me. And he said unto me: There is no God.                                                      —Alma 30:53 One of the greatest personal crises we as Latter-day Saints can face is the loss of testimony. One Sunday we find ourselves sitting in sacrament meeting and thinking, “What am I doing …

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