I have been watching with interest, and severe disappointment, the drama unfolding on South Temple Street in Salt Lake City this week. A group called Protect LDS Children, PLDSC for short, has been inviting a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to come sit in a camp chair on the sidewalk across the…
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Earlier this week, I was reading a fantastic talk by J. Reuben Clark, Jr., then a member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This talk was given as part of the April 1934 General Conference of the Church, and is available via PDF here. He referred to various…
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We are living in the latter days, and while I don’t know when the Second Coming will occur, it is clearly sooner today than it was yesterday. I have been thinking a lot in the last week on the Parable of the Ten Virgins. It is found in the Gospel of St. Matthew, immediately after…
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At the tender age of 14, Joseph Smith went into a grove of trees near his home in New York in order to seek knowledge from the Lord. In the vision that followed, Joseph was told by the Lord not to join any churches then extant, for “they were all wrong” and that “all their…
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