“Friendship with Christ”
Were we actually friends? Or was He more like a benevolent caretaker and I was forever in his debt?
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Were we actually friends? Or was He more like a benevolent caretaker and I was forever in his debt?
Where’s Huldah? Missing (Female) Prophet in Come, Follow MeBy April Young-Bennett | Published July 14, 2022God’s chosen people fall into apostasy. The prophet warns them that wickedness leads to destruction. They counsel with the prophet and repent. They follow the prophet. This is a favorite narrative of the authors of the Church’s Come, Follow Me curriculum. But what if that same story could also be written this way? God’s chosen people fall into apostasy. A woman warns them that wickedness leads to destruction. They counsel with a woman and repent. They follow a woman.. . . I [have] now studied three […]
Galilee, a crystal wave of scales falls into a boat. A tiny girl, Miriam, picks up a sardine, holds the wiggling fish in her palm. 1. Dripping with liquid beads, I am hasty, out of water, for the crackle of heat, coals for roasting. I tend the fires and turn the spits as fish skins dry and curl and crisp. At my feet, they are many. Silver slippers squirm, water alive on land. I see their black beads, flashing with sunlit terror. Father skims masses with his nets each night—enough to feed all Magdala One, perhaps this one, with rainbow […]
I am stretched out on a couch in Richmond, Virginia, PCR-tested and fresh off an evening flight from JFK. Only a few hours ago, I was at work in Brooklyn, in a room swarming with seventh graders, not quite believing that for the first time since the pandemic started I was going to be congregating with my people. Now I am here. We are here, all together. I have to be touching as many of my friends as possible. My hands cradle Lauren’s and my feet rest on Madeline’s lap as Shannon and Carol Ann both catch us up on […]
I have always known friends were key to my happiness. Give me a good friend and I can weather almost anything.
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