The Smith-Larsen daguerreotype locket is a fascinating artifact. A documentary movie and book will soon be published touching on the relic (www.brotherjosephagain.com). Because it is a personal ...
One year after a devastating attack claimed four lives, injured eight others, and destroyed their local house of worship, members of the Grand Blanc, Michigan, congregation of The Church of Jesus ...
In many ways, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a stable and traditional community. For at least the last four decades, Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons) have ...
Most of us are like writers of fiction. We take our life experiences and weave them into stories. But our stories are never entirely objective. We write to make a point. We color every account with ...
On a busy Friday afternoon as I was rushing to complete milestones for two big projects, I took a phone call from an unknown phone number. It was a Latter-day Saint woman I knew long ago when I was a ...
The striking recent electoral success of members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and of others closely allied with that organization, has drawn considerable attention. And rightly so.
About thirty-three years ago I read the Book of Mormon and asked God if it was true. He answered me with an undeniable, audible “yes.” My life before that answer was like an off-road vehicle racing ...
During an address delivered at the April 2008 General Conference of the Church that was entitled, simply, “The Twelve,” President Boyd K. Packer related a story that struck me then and that has stuck ...
Be it in the field of chemistry, engineering, or food science, dozens of real-life applications of academic research make it into the marketplace every year from BYU. In fact, per every $1 million of ...
My wife buttons my shirt. She starts at the collar, and before that first button she slides two fingers inside it to check the room, the way you would test a knot, and then she works her way down. It ...
Some time ago I encountered a life situation that caused me great anguish. I remember spending many days and nights sobbing about my plight. There was nothing I could do to change it, and the ...
The bag goes out at ten past six, before the light does. It is heavy at the bottom and cold where the milk leaked. The walk to the bin is eleven steps down a driveway nobody has swept since April, the ...