[…] explorers and pioneers, but it represented a willingness to give limited support to a military effort in order to benefit the larger needs of the Mormon kingdom. Ironically, in later years the Mormon Battalion […]
[…] Saints planning to go by sea on the first emigration to California were putting their affairs in order and gathering to New York City. They came from all directions: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New […]
[…] “You know what I mean.” Old Fairbank was a polygamist, the leader of a community called the Order of Enoch that operated a coal mine a couple of miles farther up the canyon. To […]
[…] his protagonist Bruce Mason on a brief visit to Salt Lake City some forty-five years after leaving home. The seventy-ish Mason, now a successful lawyer, distinguished internationalist and former ambassador, returns to the city of […]
[…] an American correspondent in the Russian Zone and former Mormon missionary in Germany, General Vasili Sokolovsky’s 1946 order permitted regular Church services; Church representatives were allowed to travel freely (there were thirty-one local German […]
Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 69–82 Zina, like many other early converts to Mormonism, was a child of the Second Great Awakening.
In December 1830 the founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. announced a revelation which established the doctrine of “gathering” the new church’s members at a headquarters area: “And again, a commandment I give unto […]
[…] all men, for what it lays before men of a future, for this day had to happen in order that Easter and its glorious events could come to pass.”[9] Perhaps more characteristic of Latter-day Saint […]
In 1989, the Primary Association released a new songbook for Mormondom’s children, its first since 1969. Evaluating it for a professional hymnody publication, one reviewer commented: “This handsome volume’s 8V2 x 11” pages exude […]
[…] theologians who have looked on the antifoundationalism of the times as an opportunity to reinstate a Christian order but who have found themselves shipwrecked on the rocks of dogmatism, this movie is a quiet, […]