The Sacred Shout
April 17, 2018One of the least known rites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the sacred hosanna shout.
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The Nursing Home
April 17, 2018My mother was eighty-four, a widow of six months, and badly crippled with arthritis in the fall of 1981. She was also virtually blind. For the past six months, her eight children had watched anxiously…
Mary Ann
April 17, 2018It was one of those crisp November days in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when I heard the news. Snuggled under a quilt, I was reading to my two young sons when the telephone interrupted us. It was…
The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible
April 17, 2018The question this essay attempts to answer is whether the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST) represents in any way a restoration of text that originally existed in ancient manuscripts but was later altered…
Divisions of the House
April 17, 2018The World Conference is the highest legislative authority of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The First Presidency of the Church is responsible for administering the laws and policies of the…
Enter Ye into My Rest
April 17, 2018When you go so far
it is hard
to turn your head around
and see
where you’ve been.
Serving or Converting? A Panel: Person-to-Person Service
April 17, 2018Going into all the world to serve others on an individual basis is an opportunity for creative, thoughtful expression. An individual may render service on behalf of an organization or may act independently of any…
Serving or Converting? A Panel: To Serve, then Teach
April 17, 2018I would like to try to lay a religious foundation for the point of view I am going to take regarding serving or converting. I see five basic dimensions to being religious. Some people feel…
Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective
April 17, 2018Seventeen years ago, Moses Rischin, Fulbright Professor of History at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, in a review essay first used the phrase, “the New Mormon History.” By it, he meant to categorize the…
Meaning Still Up for Grabs | Roger D. Launius, Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834
April 17, 2018Firmly established in Mormon history is Joseph Smith’s 1834 crusade from Kirt land, Ohio, to the borders of Jackson County, Missouri, to “redeem Zion.” Its purpose was to assist Latter-day Saints lately driven from their…