[…] on the subject over the preceding five decades. Apostle Mark E. Petersen, as author of the Church News editorials for much of this time, also waged a highly visible “Church” campaign against birth control […]
[…] I separated stories on American Mormonism from those on the local LDS Church. Polygamy, not surprisingly, dominated news reports about American Mormonism. Stories about Warren Jeffs, Tom Green, and the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart […]
[…] the symbols of their own country? These instances are merely symptoms of deeper attitudes. When the Church News (or This Week in Utah as it is known to the underground and irreverent in Australia) […]
[…] over the editorship, they were flattered, but declined. They too, had very good reasons: Jack was awaiting news concerning his possible promotion to full professor at the University of Utah, and Linda was recovering […]
[…] Lavina Fielding Anderson, associate editor for the Ensign, met Bradford in the lobby with some dis appointing news: “Brother Larsen says he will under no circumstances talk to the editor of Dialogue.“ Bradford did […]
Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days […]
[…] Wood, Joseph Smith Begins His Work: The Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1963), 397. Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, American Mennonites and Protestant Movements (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987). See […]
[…] excruciating. I felt personally betrayed and exploited. But when I read Elder Dunn’s apology in the Church News soon after the full, helpful, and balanced discussion of the issue in Sunstone, I forgave him, willingly […]
[…] a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
[…] the developing crisis with Spain. On February 16, an editorial in the church organ, the Deseret Evening News, praised the “chivalrous” aid which the Spanish officials in Havana gave to the wounded Americans on […]