…considering early New English law and New York literature defined treasure seeking as witchcraft.[87] Rather than describing Smith’s activities as pretended, the Purple narrative describes Smith’s activities in terms of…
…Church News, November 5, 1966, 16. Greenspan, The Timetables of Women’s Fashion, 364, 368. Goldberg, Grassroots Resistance, 196, 198. Ibid., 200, 204. “Is This the Time” (editorial), Church News, June…
…reported concerns of metropolitan churchmen in England from farming life in up-state New York. This column originated in a London-based periodical; within a year, it was in the Palmyra news.[31]…
…4, 1855, New York Herald, p. 8, “You must not think, from what I say, that I am opposed to slavery. No! the negro is damned, and is to serve…
…news release in 2001, when the discussion was vivid on the American political front, mentioned: Because of increasing interest from members of the news media regarding the Church’s position on…
…is how Todorov puts it: “ In a world which is indeed our world, the one we know, a world without devils, sylphides , or vampires, there occurs an event…
…and searching, because it was such a big change. But I think that sometimes when you are in a leadership role, you are in a cocoon. Sometimes you don’t have…
…Are Resigning from the Church Over Anti-LGBT Policy,” Vice News 16November 2015, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d39yjj/more-than-2500-mormons-are-resigning-from-the-church- over-anti-lgbt-policy. Elizabeth Diaz, “Mormon Church to Allow Children of L.G.B.T. Parents to Be Baptized,” New York Times,…
…new job, and other events delayed the revisions for about a year. The delay allowed me to do more reading, benefiting especially from new research on early Mormon kinship that…
…She had (and has) a name: Asherah. The word ’asherah appears forty times in the Old Testament (see Appendix A), sometimes referring to the Goddess directly, but more often referring…