A BYU Student named Akatzin Lopez recently wrote a paper for his religion class and titled it, Defining Zion: Striving for the Dream of Zion. Brother Lopez begins his paper by saying, “For me it is a little more difficult to really fathom what a Zion society would be like.” I admire his courage in […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Is Just Singing About Zion Enough?
One fine Sabbath day while sitting in Sacrament meeting, I started logging how many of our hymns in our hymnbook mention Zion. Although I don’t have my log here in front of me, I do remember that 5 of the first 10 hymns mention it. But, I wondered, “Is just singing about Zion enough to […]
You Ready for Economic Equality?
I’ve broken up with comments a single paragraph below from a talk Orson Pratt gave in September of 1854. Let us prepare ourselves for the coming of Enoch’s Zion, that we may have the same order of things among us that they had in the beginning. Then, again, it will be a glorious thing in […]
Thoughts on Zion 23 – God is Waiting For Us to Build Zion
There are three common objections to the idea that we can build Zion. The following are quotes from a talk given by President Brigham Young on February 23, 1862 which I believe refute these objections: 1. Jesus must build Zion, we can’t. “We are not going to wait for angels, or for Enoch and his […]