1. Rachel Adler, “Feminist Judaism: Past and Future,” CrossCurrents 51, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 486.

2. Merriam-Webster, s.v. “opposition,” accessed November 27, 2023, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opposition. See also the definitions in the 1828 dictionary that was available during Joseph Smith’s time: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/opposition.

3. Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. “ob-,” accessed November 27, 2023, https://www.etymonline.com/word/ob-#etymonline_v_2404.

4. Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. “opposition (n.),” accessed November 27, 2023, https://www.etymonline.com/word/opposition#etymonline_v_7086.

5. Alessio Moretti, “The Geometry of Logical Opposition” (PhD diss., Université de Neuchâtel, 2009), 23–24, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=7366a3a725e374cb4e23fd352419e3a92ead5078.

6. Jeffrey R. Holland, “Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet,” Ensign 45, no. 5 (May 2015): 105.

7. “John Gribble, Paragoonah, 1864 July 7,” Church History Library, Salt Lake City; quoted in “Within the Walls of Liberty Jail,” in Revelations in Context, ed. Matthew McBride and James Goldberg (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2016), 259.

8. Elizabeth Lloyd Howell, “Milton’s Prayer for Patience,” in The World’s Great Religious Poetry, ed. Caroline Miles Hill (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973), 19.

9. LoveOneAnother2011, “Laura Story—Blessings,” YouTube video, 1:05–33, accessed December 1, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSVqHcdhXQ.

10. Emily Lakdawalla, “Oppositions, Conjunctions, Seasons, and Ring Plane Crossings of the Giant Planets,” Planetary Society, July 7, 2016, https://www.planetary.org/articles/06031044-oppositions-conjunctions-rpx.

11. “Planetary Opposition 2023: Jupiter, Uranus, and Other Planets at Their Brightest,” Starwalk, November 24, 2023, https://starwalk.space/en/news/what-is-opposition-in-astronomy#what-does-opposition-mean-in-astronomy.

12. “What Does a Planet ‘in Opposition’ Mean?,” Royal Museums Greenwich, accessed November 27, 2023, https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-planet-opposition.

13. See 3 Nephi 17:21–22 and Moses 7:28; see also Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life (Salt Lake City: Ensign Peak, 2012).

14. Elie Wiesel, Night, trans. Stella Rodway (New York: Hill and Wang, 1960), 71.

15. As we “mourn with those that mourn” (Mosiah 18:9), we are doing what God would do.

16. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, ed. Eberhard Bethge, trans. Reginald H. Fuller (New York: Macmillan, 1953), 220.

17. Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001), 285.

18. Heschel, Prophets, 288.

19. Heschel, Prophets, 32. Similarly, in his intercessory prayer, Jesus Christ underscores the importance of knowing God: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).

20. Hugh W. Nibley, “The Atonement of Jesus Christ, Part 3,” Ensign 20, no. 9 (September 1990): 22.

21. Hugh W. Nibley, “The Atonement of Jesus Christ, Part 1,” Ensign 20, no. 7 (July 1990): 22.

22. Quentin L. Cook, “The Songs They Could Not Sing,” Ensign 41, no. 11 (November 2011): 106.

Eric Dahlin

BYU Studies Publications