[…] City’s non-Mormon population swelled into the hundreds—primarily males—and the next two decades were filled with violent incidents breaking out along religious lines of division. LDS leadership did not discourage this, but actu ally created […]
[…] ship he had taken, the Quedah Merchant. Arriving in the West Indies, he was greeted with the news that a charge of piracy had been leveled against him. He made a hasty return to […]
[…] very good reasons. They protect and maintain our psychic and physiologic integrity through time. For instance, the breaking of a taboo in the matter of abortion has proved to have devastating emotional consequences even […]
[…] I separated stories on American Mormonism from those on the local LDS Church. Polygamy, not surprisingly, dominated news reports about American Mormonism. Stories about Warren Jeffs, Tom Green, and the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart […]
[…] political commentator and Latter-day Saint Glenn Beck praised The Real George Washington (published 1991) on his Fox News show as part of his “Founders’ Fridays” series. Beck labeled the book “the best book ever […]
[…] through those first pitiful drafts of fiction at the School of Spencer. Unknowingly he opened a new world for me when others had closed down. To begin, I notice that Sean Ziebarth (SZ) categorized […]
[…] of my Mormon heritage, but this does not preclude my questioning within my cultural upbringing about the world, or worlds, in which I live. I wish that I could accept the basic premises advanced […]
[…] be printed in the same form as the radio addresses, for distribution.[46] Four days later the Deseret News Church Section carried the text of Talmage’s remarks, and it also was issued in pamphlet form. […]
[…] 1957), pp. 1-8. [16] Dorothy O. Rea, “Church Sponsors Film ‘Search for Truth’ on Science, Religion,” Church News, 23 Dec. 1961, pp. 4, 7, 8. See also Henry Eyring “Our Five Worlds,” The Instructor […]
[…] population growth, much less complete ordinance work for deceased ancestors. This concern apparently has not disappeared (Church News, 20 July 1986, p. 16). Accordingly, a number of procedural changes were suggested. Some initial opposition […]