The text the bishop suggested for my remarks today comes from Doctrine and Covenants 45:66: “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of […]
[…] know as we went along. But many were cautious. How would we pay for it? Would anyone buy it? Did we have anything to say? Who would write for us? We wanted to keep […]
[…] denigrate or detract from the enormous significance of the histories by Edward Tullidge and Hubert Howe Bancroft,[ 6] it may be fairly said that “objective,” “scholarly,” and “systematic” treatises on the Mormons and their […]
Dialogue 1. 3 (Fall 1966): 29–46 In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is […]
[…] not His Son to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:16, 17) In the Mormon view of eternal life, grace precedes, accompanies, and completes individual effort and […]
[…] learned by letter that the First Presidency had acted upon the Lund-Hintze report. The Church could not buy the colony site at that time because it had no money. Hintze had more or less […]
[…] Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his father.
[…] “Don’t be disturbed, Brother Sessions. This is what the Lord wants you to do. God bless you!”[ 6] Seven days thereafter, in October, 1926, the Sessions arrived in Moscow. Their charge was simply to […]
[…] upon the Church by this and other agencies without an extensive evaluation of their programs and services.[ 6] Much of what the Church is able to do in the areas of doctrine and practice, […]
[…] meaning for the Hancock family, one supposes, like the attempt on the part of Manuela Trujillo to buy the blond child. These incidents would be suitable for memoirs but they don’t lead anywhere in […]