[…] noted that the traditional hemispheric view “is still widely held; within the last few months, the Church News identified the estimated 177 million Indians of North and South America and Polynesians as Lamanites.” Even […]
[…] man, are earnestly trying for a credible rejuvenation. A recent letter to the editor of the Deseret News (19 April 1979) stated, As a member of the LDS church . . . I must […]
[…] the branches, but he could see that Sylvia wasn’t in the orchard. “OK, where are you reading today?” The bathroom door opened, and she walked down the hall toward him, a book dangling from […]
[…] and believed strongly in honesty. Her grandmother had studied from this “Book of Mormon” and had even read to her from it when she was a child, but she couldn’t remember any particular stories […]
[…] marriages from Emma? My head was swimming with new terms like peepstone, necromancer, and money digger. I read disturbing allegations concerning Danites, masonic rituals, and Egyptian papyri. I had heard of other people reading […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] years ago an interesting film called Network focused on an anchor person (Mr. Beal) on the nightly news who one day puts down his script and refuses to report the fodder being fed him […]
[…] (like “husband”) is a role that is automatically created by marriage. Even more significant in the good news department were the evident, serious, concentrated efforts of the men who spoke to use inclusive language […]
[…] Latter-day doctrines, teachings that were quite different from the teachings of the dominant churches of the day. Today there seems to be more concern about “fitting in” with other religious organizations, sometimes at the […]
[…] other-delusion, folly, and even chicanery.” Friedman sets her review of Refiner’s Fire in the context of periodic news stories focusing on sensational or outrageous aspects of Mormonism: the Mark Hofmann forgeries and murders, for instance, […]