[…] world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as Pope John Paul of today‘s Catholic Church has done, visiting places and lands where the Church remained strong…
[…] including prosecuting attorney for Washington County, Salt Lake County Recorder, and business agent for the Deseret Evening News. His brother, George Q. Cannon, was a member of the First Presidency of the Church (Evans […]
[…] bathtub while he unlaced his boots. He stood and slowly shook them out into the toilet. “I am tired,” he said, out loud, looking into the mouth of his boot. It was hard work […]
[…] loves me, just as he loves my sisters. When I pray about them, or for them—asking for news or information—what I feel is a wave of love that is almost physical, almost substantive. And […]
[…] within a year of the Manifesto, in a sermon by First Presidency counselor George Q. Cannon (Deseret News, 14 Nov. 1891). On that occasion, he explicitly stated that the document was given because the Saints […]
[…] vote to end polygamy. This tactic was suggested by the New York Times in 1867 (reprint, Deseret News, 15 Jan. 1867; Beeton 1986, x) and was subsequently introduced as a bill in the United […]
[…] 6 (May 1976): 12-13; Jerry Jacobs, “The Church has Divine Mandate to Teach Gospel to Indians,” Church News, 20 Nov. 1976; Dean L. Larsen, “Mingled Destinies: The Lamanites and the Latter-day Saints,” Ensign 5 […]
[…] federal tax cut in sixteen years and returned our nation to a balanced budget that, according to latest projections, may be a reality as early as 1999, according to the method by which a […]
[…] believed. After a televised debate, my opponent in the primary election opined that my opposition to the latest federal gay-bashing legislation, draped with the high-minded-sounding title “Defense of Marriage Act,” would, by itself, guarantee […]
[…] Alma 39:5 does not simply and unambiguously yield a proof-text for it. I regret to bear bad news, if this is bad news, but I did not write the news, and I only know […]