A Pharisaic Prism

From his book ¨The Smallest Part of which I feel”(1973) under the chapter titled: “A View of Morality,” Neal A. Maxwell wrote: Psychologist Allen Bergin has written perceptively about a view of life and morality in the gospel context: ¨The ideal of...

* The Language of the Atonement

When the murky shadows of the everyday battles of life cause us to call out in the dark, the Savior will come and with him bring light. He knows our battles. He understands our fear and discouragement. His is the ultimate empathy. . . . As we go through life we learn...

Experiencing the Gospel with Fresh Eyes

From the last chapter of the book “The Power of Stillness:” And Following a previous post, “A Confusing Place”. . . . As we’ve outlined here, there may be another way to sit with our faith, even in its most flat, uninspiring, confusing, and painful...

A Confusing Place

From the last chapter of the book “The Power of Stillness:” A Confusing Place A couple who had spent most of their lives as active Latter-Day Saints asked to meet privately with their local leader about some spiritual concerns: “Is this it, Bishop?...

* Victorious Christ

James E. Talmage wrote: Christ’s agony in the garden is unfathomable by the finite mind, both as to intensity and cause. . . . He struggled and groaned under a burden such as no other being who has lived on earth might even conceive as possible. It was not...

‘not a matter of opinion’

Ezra C. Dalby wrote of Joseph Smith: “In 1830 I became intimately acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith, and continued intimately acquainted with him until the day of his death. I had the great privilege  . . . of boarding. . .at his house so that I not only...

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