O God, my Eternal Father, I ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to my soul as I partake of it; for I eat in remembrance of the body of thy…

The pride cycle is something known to Latter-day Saints through the study of the Book of Mormon. It usually consists of prosperity followed by pride, then destruction and humility in a course that seems to continually repeat itself. But are there exceptions and is this seemingly circular pattern always met with the same results?

Every now and then, someone will point to Isaiah 4:1 and claim it as a prophetic endorsement of polygamy in the last days. The logic usually goes something like this: “Seven women will take hold of one man. That sounds…