[…] a time when we felt very blessed as the Holy Ghost comforted us” (Skibbe 28 April 1992, 6). Donald Q. Cannon, a missionary in East Germany in the late 1950s, visited the Leipzig Conference […]
[…] quorum meetings which she has attended. A most disconcerting note in the diary is an entry on 3 May 1845. Zina begins with a preamble which reads, “God onely knows my heart this day. […]
[…] family. Expense of interest on mortgages and delinquent taxes ate all the equity we had in our 3,000 plus acres of land. Vera was relocated on a run-down fruit farm in Orem. I was […]
[…] and the desirability of “medium tension,” see Stark and Bainbridge, Future of Religion, especially chaps. 3 and 6; or, as I would call it for Mormons, “optimum tension.” See Mauss, The Angel and the […]
[…] command and judge us. For example, the supreme norm of the Hebrew Bible is summarized in Deuteronomy 6:4-6, “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.” Here is a statement against idolatry, […]
[…] the opposite: “I think if we lose fee for service in this country … the opportunity to buy insurance from private companies, the opportunity to sit down with an agent and talk about what […]
[…] 1974): 98. Ibid., 60, quoting Alan Green, “The Inner Man of Monticello,” Saturday Review/ World 1 ( 6 April 1974): 23. Ibid., 62. Ibid., 63, quoting Max Beloff, “The Sally Hemings Affair,” Encounter (September […]
[…] Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat” ( 6). This might refer merely to ritual cleanliness, yet it could as well suggest a character trait. […]
[…] exciting change in policy. Early LDS missionary work in Russia had been concentrated in large urban areas where most missionaries could enjoy such civilized luxuries as paved roads, frequent public transportation, telephone lines, and […]
Dialogue 33. 3 (Fall 2000): 123–136 Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in […]