[…] tracts just as word came that the United States had gone to war with Spain. On April 6, 1898, he noted in his diary, “McKinley’s message will mean war ,” and added, “I believe […]
[…] down the hole and get it over with. They’d joked about being old men and having to buy a power auger. Ed drilled a hole six inches into the ice and left the auger […]
[…] The rush of a robbery was cheaper than wine, and with the money he stole he could buy cigarettes and alcohol anyway. I imagine him breaking those fine things he couldn’t sell and spitting […]
[…] let us consider Nibley’s discussion of the writings of the prophet Enoch. Latter-day Saints have in Moses 6:25-8:3 what are properly termed “Extracts from the Prophecy of Enoch” or what Nibley has referred to […]
[…] parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217 ,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total […]
[…] addressed by the fifteen essays in this book, the eighth in Signature Books’s Essays on Mormonism series. Over a quarter of a century ago, non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps called upon her colleagues to work […]
[…] This publisher is closely connected with Signature Books. FARMS Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6.2 (1994): 122-33. Bushman sugges that the mild tone of the book shows that Marquardt, not Walters, […]
[…] life and Mormon orthodoxies. Read together, the long journey of a prominent heretic and the recent conflicts over academic freedom at Brigham Young University suggest just how difficult—yet worthwhile—the intellectual life open to religious […]
[…] it. I was, it must be remembered, only seventeen. I exchanged perhaps a dozen letters with Marilyn over the summer, and I drove to Mesa and dated her on three or four weekends. With […]
As Joseph Smith matured in his prophetic calling, he came to regard what he saw as the rational appeal of his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of […]