[…] Supreme being did exist.” Recognizing that both accounts are describing the same revival, Mormon writers have al ready credited Cowdery with an error in dating, but have been quite willing to accept the other […]
[…] in a bank for one year and then graduates from Utah State University with a B.A. in English. The third child in a family she describes as “five only children” because they were so […]
[…] the Ghost Dance The Ghost Dance of the 1890s was not the first adventist movement to sp read among the natives of the American west. Twenty years earlier in response to the encroaching Europeans, […]
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[…] as a way of explaining his father to himself. His main emphasis in the lecture, as the reader will detect, is the great fame and fortune that Sidney Rigdon might have achieved had he […]
[…] steps to both convert and retain Black Latter-day Saints. It was less a change in how Smith read scripture and more about the turbulent times in which he lived. The civil rights movement—and more […]
[…] is ample evidence that Mormon women were not disinterested recipients of the vote. Their reaction to enfranchisement readily demonstrates their involvement. Moreover, they had not been politicized overnight: many were well prepared in 1870 […]
[…] priesthood.” If Frederick should “prove unstable and unfaithful, another may be chosen, according to the law al ready given” (D&C 127:8). As Joseph Smith III neared death, he knew he needed to assure a […]
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