[…] the Utah State Historical Society. Figure 2. Interior of Brigham City Third Ward chapel during a funeral service. Note the framed portraits of Church leaders flanking the rostrum. Image courtesy of Special Collections and […]
[…] Member Found Not Guilty of Sexual Conduct with a Minor,” September 8, 2006, B-2. As of this writing, the remaining cases have not yet been tried. In striking contrast to his predecessors, Warren Jeffs […]
[…] was ‘given a black and white reason’ for his firing, but had been questioned repeatedly about his writings for the now-defunct Seventh East Press, an independent student newspaper at Brigham Young University.” Metcalfe researched the […]
[…] topic remains controversial without general consensus. A fifth explanation attributes the Book of Mormon text to “automatic writing,” also called “spirit writing,” “trance writing,” “channeling,” “psychography,” “abnormal writing,” “direct writing,” and “independent writing.” In […]
[…] differentiation. The first, visible in the Hellenistic Jewish interpreter and philosopher Philo of Alexandria and in the writings of Paul, seizes on the difference between Gen 1 and Gen 2–3 as expressive of the […]
Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019):37–58
Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to […]
[…] the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s and the expansion of the New Deal during the Great Depression. Writing within the context of a conservative reaction to President Jimmy Carter’s administration in the late 1970s, […]
[…] will go a long way toward making sister missionaries feel more welcome, but continued emphasis on missionary service being a priesthood duty, explicit statements about optional versus expected service, and subtle verbal and visual […]
[…] (Summer 1994): 83–153
Believing that a more efficient approach could be used to the church’s advantage, he proposed that the Relief Society organize a social service department where these new techniques could be tested and implemented.
[…] so much experience with, and we have some unfinished business in teaching on that.”51 As of the writing of this article, that business remains largely unfinished. Although continuing to affirm the Church’s positions with […]