Nelson, who frequently warns about preparing for the Second Coming. There also is buzz in pews and on porches about the “ White Horse Prophecy,” Mormon politicians, and church President Russell M. After all, the latter days are referenced in their faith’s official name.
(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)Īmid a global pandemic, civil unrest, a presidential election and, for many Utahns, repeated earthquakes, many biblical believers are thinking anew about the so-called apocalypse.įor Latter-day Saints, though, the end times have always been at the forefront of their theology. “When we are willing to look at our history closely, sympathetically, and honestly,” they write in the introduction, “Saints’ struggles with the pressures of the past can serve as laboratories of discipleship, giving us insight into what it means to follow Christ in all times and places.” This week’s podcast: The apocalypse
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The co-authors see their book, full of diverse voices and eclectic experiences, as “part monument to the past, part offering to God, part meditation on what makes up the life of our faith’s particular kind of Saint.” In the book, poet Goldberg penned the following about Assouad’s miles of ministering:
“Reaching out to areas that are remote or may be dangerous,” Assouad told Beirut’s Daily Star in 2015, “is what makes this church a worldwide church.” There is the story, for instance, of a Lebanese district president, Karim Assouad, who regularly ventured from Beirut to Damascus to take the sacrament to handfuls of faithful members in war-riddled Syria. Parshall, with artwork from Carla Jimison, comes “ Song of Names: A Mormon Mosaic,” a 146-page collection of prose and poetry about ordinary Latter-day Saints living extraordinary lives and everyday disciples exhibiting discipleship every day. An accurate history is also a faith-promoting history.” New book salutes everyday disciplesįreshly released from co-authors James Goldberg and Ardis E. We are seeing the truth of this in ‘ Saints,’ the new multivolume history of the church.
“.A true and accurate history is genuinely faith promoting. “During my 20 years with the Church History Department, I have come to appreciate the value, importance and power that come with sharing an accurate history,” Boatright tells Manwaring. Instead, Gary Boatright, operations manager for church historic sites, explains in a recent “10 questions” interview with Kurt Manwaring that the temple reference in the “Wagon Box Prophecy” seems to have sprung from a 1940 pageant script celebrating the cornerstone-laying for the Idaho Falls Temple. While temples now grace the region - in Idaho Falls and Rexburg with another under construction in Pocatello - there is no direct evidence Woodruff made such a prediction during his visit. The story goes that senior apostle Wilford Woodruff journeyed in 1884 to southeastern Idaho - where Latter-day Saints were struggling to build communities - stood up in a wagon and prophesied that “beautiful temples” someday would rise there.
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