<i>Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 21–32</i><br>While an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view […]
[…] had been recalled. In the same way, even the geographic names given by the expedition also disappeared over time. With only a few exceptions—which Stott notes—did any names survive on later federal maps. No […]
[…] pile of turquoise and silver jewelry and two Ganado red rugs. One by one, in no particular order, the people stood up and spoke for several minutes, like an all-night fast and testimony meeting […]
[…] a literal change (absolute assimilation), a common expectation until the recent 1981 rewording of 2 Nephi 30: 6, in which “pure” was substituted for “white”: “And their scales of darkness shall begin to fall […]
[…] ordered to touch it off if the Sioux captured the fort. General Custer allegedly had a standing order to all officers of the Seventh Cavalry that if Indians attacked a train in which Mrs. […]
The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has prob ably brought mixed feelings to many Latter day Saints. Although some excellent scholarship has demonstrated that we have little or […]
[…] Holy Week. It is useless to try to harmonize the four gospels or arrange them in chronological order as one account, although David H. Yarn (1962) bravely attempted the feat and Talmage (1915) also […]
[…] conscience is their guide. General Alexander W. Doniphan possessed the unusual courage to resist a written military order, and Joseph Smith was spared execution on the morning of 1 November 1838 (HC 3:190-99). We […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] are none that are known” (p. 38). Also, “At this point, Joseph’s active imagination would have taken over and begun to consider the possibilities” (p. 118). On still another page the writer in a […]