This week, people in the USA will be celebrating Thanksgiving. Starting next Sunday, most of the Christian world begins preparations for Christmas. (And some have already started preparation.) It’s a time of joy and...
This past Christmas, I was responsible for the Sacrament Meeting Christmas program at my local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward. For most of the musical numbers, I asked the performer, choir...
I love big, bold brassy hymns, and anything written by Ralph Vaughan Williams tops my list. One of my favorites is For All the Saints, written to the tune Sine Nomine, which means “without...
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Psalm 116:5 I had never heard this song until a few days ago when the choir director for the Exponent II retreat sent...
Carol Lynn Pearson Carol Lynn Pearson is an advocate for LGBTQ rights (see her book Goodbye, I Love You) and feminist theology (see her book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy) and a regular contributor...
Come, We That Love the Lord is a short hymn by Isaac Watts. I rarely hear it sung in LDS services, but it’s lovely and I wish we would sing it more often. The...
When I was in college, I would often take time to go into the gardens behind the chapel. There was a statue of Jesus with open arms in the center of the garden. Inscribed...
When I joined the church in 1994, it was in many ways a very different church than I find myself in now. We talked about how the Book of Mormon was written for our...
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