We are not the first generation that has wondered if the end times have arrived, that the world has been so corrupted that only God’s intervention can make things right. Think of the 14th-century and the Black Plague, or the Thirty Years War two hundred years later when the center of Europe was embroiled in war. Or a century and a half after that, at the beginning of the 19th-century, when Napoleon marched back and forth across Europe and sounded the death knell to the Holy Roman Empire. That was the setting that Charles Dickens used to begin this classic story,The Tale of Two Cities:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
The difference today is that there is no place to hide. No Great Basin to settle, no place to where we can push a handcart or lead an ox-drawn wagon. Despite that, our prophets and apostles have told to make our own homes a refuge, to teach our families the truths of the Gospel, to resist the slings and arrows hurled at us from the Great and Spacious Building.
This Latter Day Radio Podcast focuses on the “secularization of America” and examines various institutions from the media to prestigious universities’ and school districts’ adoption of such ideologies as “Wokeism” and Critical Race Theory. Host GM Jarrard is joined by two guests, home-schooler Amber Peterson, mother of four who has home-schooled her children for seven years and Don Gull, former CBS executive in New York City, co-founder of the A&E Network and mission president to Ireland in the 1980’s. The day are indeed a reminder of what Lehi saw in his dream about the fountain of filthy waters and the Great and Spacious building. Our job is to hold on fast to the iron rod. We pray this podcast will encourage you to do just that.
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