[…] 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 […]
[…] in the bastions of Nordic, Teutonic, British, and Celtic Europe—a region which supplied membership and leadership during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—will increasingly be among people of color not native to the European continent.
The bus to Sao Bento up through a complex development of valleys and mountainous jungle. The canopy of trees changes periodically during the slow ascent from the typical street-lining palms to heavier blocked rows […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began with a mission to restore the ancient church, but not for everyone at the same time. In its earliest days, the church was preoccupied with its mission […]
[…] from ‘the rez’ has a different life experience than somebody who is just writing about the rez?”[ 3] By assuming the first-person voice of Apache boy Edgar Mint, Udall, however sympathetic he may be, […]
[…] liquor, there are pretty girls, and there are thousands who have barely survived their own debacles. They buy their chips and slide into defeat. After we cross the river, Bill nudges his horse to […]
[…] By profession Ivins was a rancher, although his interests intersected with college trusteeship, mining, banking, and other enterprises.[ 6] He was the New West type: tough, intellectual, and practical.[7] He was described by Noble Warrum, […]
[…] good; but on moral and religious subjects, he was perfectly visionary—sometimes advocating one sentiment, and sometimes another.[ 6] Harris became the last of the three witnesses to the gold plates from which the Book […]
[…] up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I had baptized her in 1980. As a BYU student, I had […]