[…] 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 […]
[…] of the Danites “to enforce his will” and “suppress dis sent” though the extent of his control over this mysterious band remains open to debate (xv). He then refers to Sidney Ridgon’s inflammatory 4th […]
[…] for their eggs was put into a missionary fund for her sons. Mable visited her often to buy eggs and ask about Willy. Well, it seems that a suave, middle-aged stake president had taken […]
According to traditional theism, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. If God were omnibenevolent, he would want to eliminate evil. If God were omnipotent, he would be able to eliminate evil. So why should […]
[…] Tullidge,” 69. Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 37. Woman’s Exponent, 5 (11 November 1876). Ibid., 6 (1 January 1878): 119; 6 (15 August 1877): 45. E. R. Snow to ?, n.d., Peterson […]