[…] both awe and some confusion among rank-and-file Latter-day Saints while causing at least a degree of discomfort for Church leaders and spokespeople who are trying to make Mormonism more palatable for our mainstream Christian […]
The text the bishop suggested for my remarks today comes from Doctrine and Covenants 45:66: “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of […]
[…] know as we went along. But many were cautious. How would we pay for it? Would anyone buy it? Did we have anything to say? Who would write for us? We wanted to keep […]
[…] (California: Berkeley, 1918). 5. JOSEPH A. GEDDES, “The United Order Among the Mormons (Missouri Phase)” (Columbia, 1924). 6. LELAND H. CREER, “Utah and the Nation, 1846-1861” (California: Berkeley, 1926). 7. DEAN D. MCBRIEN, “The […]
<i>Dialogue 1. 3 (Fall 1966): 29–46</i><br> In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is […]
[…] not His Son to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:16, 17) In the Mormon view of eternal life, grace precedes, accompanies, and completes individual effort and […]
[…] learned by letter that the First Presidency had acted upon the Lund-Hintze report. The Church could not buy the colony site at that time because it had no money. Hintze had more or less […]
[…] Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his father.
[…] 5. James R. Clark, “Church and State Relations in Education in Utah, 1847-1957” (Utah State University, 1958). 6. Ronald T. Daly, “Student Programs Sponsored by Religious Groups in Cooperation with Institutions of Higher Learning” […]
[…] aimed at members’ families, (2) professional resources from both the Church and the secular world, and ( 3) political and social action aimed at all families. Present efforts to assist the family in coping […]