As the story goes, and as countless Mormon preachers and teachers have told it, embellished it and retold it for generations, it was a classic confrontation between a conspiracy of falsehood and the heroism of…
Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61
Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and the federal government.
This talk is supposed to have some reference to the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Restoration of the Church. One hundred and fifty years is not as long as you think—the Lord has not delayed his…
“Marriner Eccles was American economic history,” says G. L. Bach in the foreword to this enlightening biography. Eccles’ life was an “extraordinary encapsulation in one man of the explosive changes” in business and government from…
Those interested in the Mormon landscape should scan or, to use the author’s favorite verb, note this study. Whether they decide to scan it by quick inspection or careful examination will depend on how closely…
Afuture B. H. Roberts writing the history of the Church of our times will point out that the decsion to carry the Mormon gospel and culture beyond the traditional confines of language, boundaries and race…
General Barlow, Phillip L. “On Moonists and Mormonites.” Sunstone 4 (January/February 1979): 37-41. Kenney, Scott. “Mormonism and the Fold.” Sunstone 3 (March/April 1978): 24-25. Agriculture Bitton, Davis and Linda P. Wilcox. “Pestiferous Ironclads: The Grasshopper…
We were seated in the chapel of the building serving both as mission headquarters and home of the West Milan (Italy) Branch. Our young gospel doctrine teacher was presenting a lesson on the role of…
My family and I recently spent three years in Cairo where we were much in volved in cooperative education programs with Egyptian counterparts. We became aware of how serious the official attitude toward an outside…
My father was a Hindu. He was converted to Christianity by Brethren Missionaries from England about 100 years ago, and he suffered persecutions from his Hindu parents, relatives and villagers for his having accepted Jesus…