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 […]
[…] historical articles were being produced, few outside the immediate sphere of Mormonism took much notice of them.[ 6] This is not unlike what happened in the study of western American history during the recent […]
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.
[…] land use, a decision that would prove influential in con verting the affected Maori to Mormonism thereafter.[ 6] Early British juris prudence thus rendered tino rangatiratanga ineffectual where Crown interests or conflict was concerned. […]
[…] statarelli.[5] There was no separation of church and state, and the church had juridical parity with the state.[ 6] The revolutionary agitations of 1848 forced King Carlo Alberto of Sardinia (with capital in Turin) and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Book of Mormon peoples.[5] In fact, at the time this view was almost universally accepted among Mormons.[ 6] Joseph Smith had explained in 1842: “I was informed [by the An gel Moroni] concerning the […]
[…] Mormon and an editor with Aspen Books, an LDS-oriented press based in Murray, Utah. Taylor was prepared to buy the rights to Eadie’s story but discovered they had already been sold to another Utah publisher, […]
[…] bad your first week is, it can’t be as bad as mine.’”[19] Young told the missionaries to buy grips similar to the one he had carried in the Southern States Mission. Each missionary carried […]