[…] 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 […]
[…] for further discussion. Widtsoe proceeded to dismiss the twenty four-hour-day view, the 1000-year-day concept, the D&C 77: 6, 7,12 argument, as well as the theory attributed to Joseph Smith that the earth had been […]
[…] by this means: The Book of Abraham was published in the Herald, in No. 1 of Vol. 3. That number has been republished, and is now for sale. Price 10 cents. Thirty-two years later […]
[…] proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small and likely unique ( 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) 39-page pamphlet titled, “Om Mormonerne” (About the Mormons), by S. B. Hersleb […]
[…] family figures on whom many were based. As a self-proclaimed family chronicler, Sorensen found in her male forbears, indeed all members of the Eggertsen family, a significant source of information and ideas for her fiction.
[…] When I first met him on the Stanford campus in the mid-sixties, I experienced an instant bond. Over time, I have felt closer to Gene than to all the men in my life, except […]
[…] repaired” when “depressed by false opinion and contentious thought,” or caught up in “trivial occupations” (The Prelude, 12:208-215). The imprints of Gene that live on in me most certainly have nourished me when I’ve been […]