Blogger Nicole Sbitani writes, “It’s Immigrant Heritage Month! So why do so many Mormons laud their European immigrant pioneer ancestors and then bemoan modern-day immigrants?”
Blogger April Young-Bennett writes, “Midwife Patty Sessions was a paradox, a careerwoman and a spiritual leader, publicly faithful while privately mourning how polygamy wreaked havoc
Lots of people don’t like Isaiah…but the prophets who wrote our scriptures sure did. The Book of Isaiah is quoted more often in the New
Today, the state of Utah celebrates Pioneer Day, the day that Mormon pioneers reached the Salt Lake valley. I’ve never really been interested in Pioneer
Four years ago in the fall of 2015, I attended the BYU Homecoming Spectacular featuring David Archuleta (who is not important to this story at
This lesson from the Gordon B. Hinckley manual begins as many pioneer-themed lessons do: with the recounting of President Hinckley’s own pioneer ancestors who crossed
I can’t believe I was 30 when I first heard this Primary song, but it’s fast become one of my favorites. I think it’s the
Abuela was raised in a small pueblo just after the Mexican Revolution of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Grandpa Angel, 16 years older than Abuela,
“All she was doing was surviving her own journey. And writing a few words about it. That’s all any of us can do. We are
My mom wrote this essay in 1988, a few months after her grandmother, Juna Tye Peterson died. The painting, Juna Tye Peterson mopping the kitchen
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