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Manifest Destiny on steroids.īegun in 1958, the project is about to finish its fourteen-volume letterpress and digital series of the Correspondence of James K. You could feel her quiet pride as she smoothed her skirt and looked out shyly at us. Yesterday was our ward’s Primary program, based on the 2018 theme for the year: “I Am a Child of God.” The program opened in a tender way: A cognitively challenged sister, aged in her mid-50s and still attending Primary, came to the podium and asserted, “I Am a Child of God.” “Yes, you are!” said our Primary president, as the sister headed back to her seat on the stand. The best of her short fiction has been collected and published by BCC Press in Revolver: Stories by Heidi Naylor She grew up in Pennsylvania and raised her family of sons in Idaho with her husband. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, the Jewish Journal, the Idaho Review, Portland (magazine of the University of Portland), Dialogue: Journal of Mormon Thought, New Letters, and other venues. The author of this post, Heidi Naylor, teaches English at Boise State University and is the closest thing that Mormon short fiction has to a rock star. Our resulting discussion did not end well for me. (“The worst predictions don’t even start until 2100 - Jesus will have come back well before then!”) One afternoon at the Indiana University LDS Institute, I tried that line on a Ph.D. Thereafter in casual conversation, I used the 2060 date to support my religious opinion that climate change would never matter. Why? Because I bought into the folk doctrines that God created the Earth’s resources to be used, that a global temperature rise of 1-2 degrees over 100 years isn’t material, and in any event, Christ’s imminent Second Coming would renew the Earth and fix everything before disaster struck.Īs a religious studies student in college, I once wrote a paper on Isaac Newton’s eschatological prediction that the Second Coming would happen in 2060. But for a long time I elected to not care. I’ve always accepted the scientific consensus surrounding carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses, the ozone layer, and climate change.