[…] recruiters, who argue that Christians must not run from the world but confront and convert it; ( 3) civil religionists, who have taken the long-held American view that God ought to be in government […]
These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed […]
[…] expressed concern that Oahu might soon become depopulated. His sympathy for the victims was evident in a 6 August 1853 entry: “I went to see Sister Dennis who is very low with the small […]
[…] in equal measure … . The transparent surfaces of Juanita’s unhurried prose play, as in Willa Cather, over unsuspected depths” (Mulder 1984). A few reviewers had reservations. One was unhappy that the account brought […]
[…] earnest effort to transform the serious conversation of Mormonism from monologue to dialogue, the journal has thrived for two decades because of the energy and imagination of its writers and contributors. Charter subscribers or […]
[…] walked home across the sage-covered hills, half-carrying his friend who had used the trip to Blackfoot to buy whiskey. “And that’s how I cast my first vote,” Grandpa would say. Of all his stories, […]
[…] the death of his first wife (p. 34); and later Brigham’s assertion while serving a mission to Canada that “women should not govern me” (p. 36), a rather revealing statement in light of his […]
[…] on my street, (4) employment in my own occupation , (5) citizen ship in my country, ( 6) visitors only to my country, and (7) exclusion from my country. The cumulative answers became Religious […]
[…] first sermon as a leader of the Reoganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Amboy, Illinois, on 6 April 1860, he expressed his unqualifed aversion to the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage.
[…] of color. On 13 May 1947, she wrote Laurie that the four of them had “worked from 6 AM to 9 PM still it was not finished.” But she was exhilarated. Oh but I […]