[…] one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).The word world, having more than one meaning, might be taken to denote human society, particularly since […]
[…] assumptions surrounding his presumed lack of it, has been enlisted by followers and detractors alike in order to frame Smith’s life within the narratives of divinely-inspired prophet or deceptive fraud, perhaps most acutely in […]
[…] 49.4 (Winter 2016): 87–108 The history behind a letter that was written by missionary Jedediah Morgan Grant to Joseph Smith, which contained information about Susan Hough Conrad and her brief love writings with a […]
[…] toward the brothel stairway. “If I worked up there, I’d have a room to myself. I could buy nice clothes. But I can’t. I won’t.” Reeves stared at his feet. A stitched pattern decorated […]
[…] tithing that returns many fold in the hour of need, the talk of tithing as our best buy in insurance, or the distasteful joke about it as personal fire insurance; that we hear the […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40 In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] a week?” I persisted. “Oh, now I’m alone, I can do on two dollars.” “What can you buy for two dollars!” I was trying to divide our food bill by six. “I buy potatoes […]
[…] be answered by losing a half day’s work in attendance at court, and who is unable to buy a home in a desirable white suburb (even though he has the money) because he cannot […]
[…] early account makes no reference to any vision occurring in 1820 and places the revival in 1823.[ 6] According to this version, Joseph was stirred at age seventeen by a revival that broke out […]
[…] Utah and China. When I realized that “Southern Far East Mission” didn’t mean Florida, I had to buy a map to locate Taiwan, my own mission field. I was dutifully packed off to the […]