[…] goldseekers. Kimball writes: Clayton provided, above all things, conciseness, accuracy, and practicality. He had furthermore, personally been over the route two times. He did not clutter up his pages with philosophical musings, fine writing, […]
[…] in the academic journals, Mormon Enigma holds much satisfaction and some surprises. They have followed its development over the past several years since its authors came among them, relative neophytes, ready to learn their […]
[…] been home again with mono, and all her neophyte faithful and her missionary-surrounded investigators had come on over to hear Kevin. The truth, as Ardmoore well knew, is that most of those people would […]
[…] Is it lawful to heal on the Sab bath, to save life or to lose it (Luke 6:1-10)? Latter-day Saints are taught to study and revere scriptures as the word of God, but they […]
[…] Carmen had ceased to knead the dough on the table in front of her and was poised over the breadboard as if it were a pulpit. “Nineteen months, Thelm. Wednesday, it will be one […]
[…] the Lemon test because it had no secular purpose (Wallace v. Jaffree, 105 S. Ct. 2479, 1985).[5][ 6] Three justices dissented, however, and two others who voted with the majority indicated that moment-of-silence statutes […]
[…] 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 […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] of “splendidly dressed” Sioux warriors who “offered my husband a young squaw for me, and wanted to buy our children” (June 1848). In 1852, Mary Garner from England reported: I had long red curly […]
[…] 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80 Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.