[…] identify the nineteenth-century context for the Book of Mormon by looking at types of texts that people today rarely encounter: books exhumed from the earth (21-39), pseudo-biblical narratives (136-158), books by people considered prophets […]
[…] plates in a room at the Smith home, four at one time and four at another (Deseret News, Aug. 14, 1878). This report is uncorroborated, however; nor was it approved by Whitmer before his […]
[…] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/31/most-americans-say-race-relations-are-a-major-problem-but-few-discuss it-with-friends-and-family; and Ryan Struyk, “Blacks and Whites See Racism in the United States Very, Very Differently,” CNN Politics, Aug. 18, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states polls/index.html. Sarah McCammon and Alyssa Edes, “Michele Norris on the Anxiety of […]
[…] version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. “Book of Mormon Reaches 150 Million Copies,” Church News and Events, April 20, 2011, https://www.lds.org/church/news/ book-of-mormon-reaches-150-million-copies. Latter-day Saint explorations of the Book of Mormon are […]
[…] discussing what has become known as “the new morality.” Such articles have appeared in the daily newspapers, news magazines, women’s magazines, general interest pictorial magazines, as well as in dignified journals of thought. The […]
[…] in its leadership, its most prolific writer, its chief theologian and historian, and its most capable defender, today, only thirty-three years later, his name is scarcely known to large segments of the membership of […]
[…] and marriage and other events by song and dancing, exchanging presents, etc. But when we come, as today, to celebrate death (and I think some of you might question the use of the word […]
[…] 2-7. J. Reuben Clark, Jr., “When Are Church Leaders’ Words Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?” Church News Section of the Deseret News (July 31, 1954), pp. 2ff; Reprinted in Dialogue 12:2 (Summer, 1979) […]
[…] offended. I am sorry for that,” Gerard said. “Please forgive him,” Frère Beckwith said. “He has bad news from home. His brother is getting a divorce—he has not been married long—and my companion is […]
[…] of Mormon citations and commentary. In addition, the study included some seventy Mormon “books” — what would today be called tracts or pamphlets. These sources, hereafter referred to collectively as “the early literature,” plus […]