Staying on the Old Ship Zion: Emerging Fractures and Divisions

A representation of the Old Ship Zion (image from pexels.com)

A few years ago, Elder M. Russell Ballard spoke of the Old Ship Zion1, a metaphor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints coined by President Brigham Young. I’d like to merge the notion of staying on the Old Ship Zion with 4 Nephi 1:17: “There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were there Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one, the children of…