by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There are three areas where members of the Church, influenced by social and political unrest, are being caught up and led away. I chose these three because they have made major invasions into the membership of the Church. In each, the temptation is for us to turn...
by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I’ve always been suspicious of a doctrine that encourages a priesthood blessing to reap the positive attention of a superior being when faced with some sort of crisis. Why? If a superior being would actually withhold a positive outcome in a crisis because there...
by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Although, I do not care much for a negro, still I have a warm spot in my heart for those beautiful singers.” David O. McKay – quoted in Gregory Prince’s David O. McKay and the rise of modern Mormonism (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2005),...
by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“As a member of the USO Council I asked President McKay if the Church-owned Deseret Gymnasium could be open to the soldiers just as the YMCAs all over the country had opened their doors. President McKay’s quick response was: ‘Yes, their uniform will...
by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Come away from any others. Follow your leaders who have been duly ordained and have been publicly sustained, and you will not be led astray.” Boyd K. Packer – 4 October 1992, Ensign Magazine, “To Be Learned is Good If…” (Salt Lake City, UT:...
by Dan Wees | Sep 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Lord Almighty leads this Church, and he will never suffer you to be led astray if you are found doing your duty. You may go home and sleep as sweetly as a babe in its mother’s arms, as to any danger of your leaders leading you astray, for if they should try to do...
