[…] courtesy of Geoffrey Noyes. Constance Noyes Robertson, Oneida Community: The Breakup (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972). Copy of letter from Theodore E. Noyes to Anita Newcomb McGee, 15 Apr. 1892, which was never […]
[…] accompanied by such high frequencies of rape, sexual harassment, prostitution, and pornography.” Schur, a humanist and a feminist, asserts that “much of pornography’s content features a systematic degradation of the individual that any real […]
[…] of the Prophet’s administrative descendants. What had happened? How did a revolutionary, humanistic religion give rise, within just a few generations, to people who were capable of implementing such repressive policies? There is a […]
[…] Smith in 1842 (Abraham 2: 22-25), which she argues is a “narrative about lying for the Lord.” Just as God tells Abraham to lie about his marriage to Sarai, so in Nauvoo marriage became […]
[…] build his Kingdom. He was one of the most Christ-centered people I have ever known, centered not just on the idea of what it means to be a Christian, but on the expression of […]
[…] copied from the original manuscript by Joseph F. Smith, Jr., August 3,1909,” John Taylor Papers, LDS Archives, copy in author’s possession. B. Harvey Allred, A Leaf in Review (Caldwell, Ind: Caxton Publishers, 1933), 187. […]
[…] untruths on evolution in the public schools or even in our Church schools, provide them with a copy of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s excellent rebuttal in his book Man: His Origin and Destiny. For […]
[…] war in Afghanistan and was now ‘doing business in a somewhat different manner, but more insidious and just as dangerous as in its pre-September 11 incarnation.’” (4) Afghan warlords, reviving ancient enmities, are fighting […]
[…] adjective that does justice to it. It has been extremely rewarding, very challenging, very frustrating, and, often, just plain fun. One critical lesson I have learned is to be much more sensitive to matters […]
[…] emeritus professor, brought his expertise concerning the life and time of Joseph Smith to his 1996 lecture essay, “Making Space for the Mormons.” It is one of the volume’s most innovative essays, specifically in […]