By Ted Lee When I was 17 years old, I almost ran away to a Buddhist monsatery. It was a conflux of events that led to this secret desire. I was finishing my senior year of high school and would soon depart for Brigham Young University—a university I did not have my heart set on …
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Tyler and the Giant Gumball Machine
Reviewed by Edward Jones III The Not Even Once Club By Wendy Watson Nelson Illustrated by Brandon Dorman Deseret Book, 2013 32 pages, $18.99 A boy named Tyler moves to a new ward. Friends from Primary invite him to a tree house where he can join their club—but only if he passes their test and …
The Olive: Poetry
By Harlow Soderborg Clark This Tree is light to the world. The fruit of its fruit light to the mind Fire to the lamp, calm to troubled waters. The fruit bears its fruit by being crushed: Salt well in a stone box Add purgatives—vinegar is good Let sit. Crush between two grinding stones driven …
Roundtable: How Does the Atonement “Work”?
The following excerpt from the Mormon Matters podcast episode, “The Atonement in Mormon Thought and Experience” (Episode 54), focuses on a presentation and discussion of the four main theories in Christian thought about how Christ’s Atonement “works.” What are the mechanisms by which humans are rescued from the consequences of sin? And is a Savior …