[…] “Pride is the universal sin, the great vice,” he said, “the great stumbling block to Zion” (1989, 6-7). Many of us receive our personal pride, our self-esteem, and our sense of worthiness and validation […]
[…] historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in […]
[…] if what I had experienced was real or just a hallucination. And although I was terribly hung over, the next morning I went to town to survey the spot where the previous night’s incident […]
For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s […]
[…] and Not as Partisans’: The Writing of Official History in the RLDS Church,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 6 (1986): 43-52; Paul M. Edwards, “The New Mormon History,” Saints’ Herald 133 (Nov. 1986): 13. As […]
I remember well the first time I met Wallace Stegner because I wanted so much to prove him wrong.
My text is a poem and a scripture since as I age I find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between beauty and truth.
[…] unprecedented number of Pakeha converts. As Barker observed, “The proportion of Pakeha church members increased from 18. 6 percent in 1951 to 32.3 percent in 1961.” The ethnic mix of the postwar New Zealand church […]
[…] countries which, in some cases, were more successful mission fields in the nineteenth century, including Switzerland ( 6,700); Denmark (4,400); Norway (4,000); Sweden (8,300); and Austria (3,400). Only the United Kingdom, which shares many […]
[…] the twenty-first century, it is essential to comprehend the missionary ideology and practices of the LDS church. For rank-and-file Latter-day Saints, this proposition seems simply axiomatic of their foundational faith in the restoration of […]