The Salt Lake Temple: Forty Years in Granite tells the remarkable story of one of the most recognizable religious buildings in the world—and the ordinary Saints whose faith, sacrifice, and perseverance made it possible.
For centuries, the Saints have been viewed as the exclusive property of rigid religious institutions—gatekept by priests, solemn church pews, and demanding, repetitive prayers.
Old Fashioned History for the Modern ReaderThe Old Fashioned School Books are a series of new readers compiled of selections from a large collection of antique American public school readers spanning from the early 1800s to the early 1900s.
Some Christian virtues are too easily kept as words, admired from a safe distance while the actual day remains hurried, guarded, wounded, and unresolved.
Faith is often carried in places too quiet to explain: the first breath of grace, the ache that refuses lesser comforts, the hand slowly opening before Christ, the hidden prayer no one sees.
The life of faith often reaches a place where control has become too heavy to keep carrying, yet letting go can feel like loss before it feels like trust.
The life given to God is often hidden inside ordinary hours: a word held back, a burden carried, a prideful claim surrendered, a mercy offered where no one is watching.
The life of faith is often tested before anyone else can see it: in the sentence held back, the appetite refused, the thought brought under Christ, the anger slowed before it becomes a wound.
The life of faith is often formed where no one is watching: in the private surrender, the quiet hunger, the prayer that has lost its need to impress, the small obedience that still has to be lived.
The Christian life is not fought first in public, but in the hidden places where fear, accusation, weariness, desire, and divided motives press against the soul.
A wounded life often learns to survive by becoming smaller than it was made to be: guarded in memory, careful with hope, unsure whether mercy can come near without asking pain to pretend.
