[…] husband.” Thus, this woman would have been seen as immoral—Jesus in talking to this “fallen” woman was breaking one more taboo. However, the woman answered, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.” Despite her […]
[…] such as the Swedish Folk melody set to the text “How Great Thou Art” (no. 86), the English hymn “For All the Saints” (no. 82) by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sibelius’s Finnish tune to […]
[…] the church has ever known. His death marked the only time in the history of the Deseret News that the paper was distributed free of charge. In 1895 the First Presidency appointed him to […]
[…] much should let our hard hearts be healed by such sights as these and in so doing share our bounty with these poor creatures so that God’s concern for his children might be more […]
[…] the obituary of a beautiful woman who looked uncannily like my older sister, Ann. That’s why I read her obituary. Only when I saw the list of Lisa McPhie’s survivors did I realize she […]
[…] Press, 1992), 99. Quoted in Thomas C. Romney, The Life of Lorenzo Snow (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1995), 46. While The Well-Tempered Clavier does stand as a symbol of equal temperament’s universal […]
[…] the nether regions of the Mormon blogosphere, but how many ward members really keep up on Religion News Service or Sistas in Zion? Consequently, I decided that I should contact the elders quorum president, […]
[…] deviants like Jesuits, Quakers, and Enthusiasts by labeling them vagabonds and disorderly persons, then penalizing them for breaking vagrancy law. Skeptical witchcraft legislation continued to be developed in the American colonies and then the […]
[…] as well. Perhaps the best of this ammunition would have been Eirikur’s account of his reasons for breaking with the Mormons. He tells of how perplexed he was when he first learned, late in […]
[…] issue. Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deserer News, 1950) V, 80n. Millennial Star 1 (1841), 252-55. Cf. Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the […]