[…] I hope to do so through the story of my own research and conclusions about the war over the past half-century—one-third of the period since President James Buchanan and Governor Brigham Young came into […]
[…] always seemed to know they were skirting the law. They were more careful with the laws of Canada. Was it racism? Romney repeats the now discredited claim, once taught in LDS Seminary, that “white […]
[…] embarrass her and the Church. In “Couldawouldashoulda,” he says, She wanted him to write something she could buy at Deseret Book and share with her sisters in Relief Society. Not much chance of that, […]
[…] sweater as I walked down a rough, cobble-stoned street shaded by two-story, pastel-colored adobe walls. I listened to the sibilant clipping of Bolivian Spanish and the soft guttural rattle of Aymara as people negotiated […]
[…] bosom which confirms the goodness of the Church and the truth of the principles which it teaches.’”[ 3] His argument, apparently, is that this inner burning doesn’t really constitute knowledge. So what can one […]
[…] to a broader, spiritualized reinterpretation of Zion while others would emphasize the apocalyptic aspects of the kingdom over its socialistic economic vision. In a real sense, the RLDS community faced the problem of “when […]
Of the Protestant denominations vying for converts in western New York during the early nineteenth century, Methodism is rightly regarded as having made the greatest religious impress on the young Joseph Smith. Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] bit strident and self-righteous in Dialogue called—I’m going to get this wrong—“Let Reason Ring from the Foothills.”[ 3] And anyone who has the slightest acquaintance with the geography of the Salt Lake Valley knows […]
[…] in places. Maybe if she was still alive next spring, he could do the floor again. Around 6:30, Robert stood up. “Well, I guess we better go before it gets too dark. We’ll be […]
[…] I also found interesting Julie Hemming Savage’s “Hannah Grocer Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage” (Dialogue 26, no. 3 [Fall 1993]: 101–18). In a day when the world press is expounding on the polygamous ancestry […]