Late in the summer of 1833 one Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, recently excommunicated from the Mormon church for “unchristianlike” conduct toward some of the sisters, learned of a manuscript written some twenty years before by […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
During his twenty years from 1951 to 1971 as seventh president of BYU, Ernest L. Wilkinson molded the lackluster Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” […]
[…] first column. They were then carefully considered, item by item, and, if the asset had an active market value, it was entered in the second or active as sets column, if it had not […]
[…] Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism (New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1988); Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, eds., Conflicts in Feminism (New York: Routledge, 1990); Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds., Feminisms […]
When the above notice appeared in the Improvement Era in September 1933, it did not seem out of place in a publication intended for the general church membership. In the same issue of the […]
<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2003): 177–192</i><br> In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I […]
<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128</i><br>JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, […]
[…] far from the addictive savagery to which humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967). Joseph Smith Jr. et al., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12), 1:253.