[…] — faithfully, morally, and at enormous costs to themselves and the Church. Those costs included alienation from American culture and from their own moral training, martyrdom for a few, and very nearly the total […]
[…] collection of biographies chronicling the lives of nine senior ward members. Impetus for the project came when news reached Bill Cottam during his initial year as First Ward bishop that several older members had […]
[…] aspects of the social economy of the South. He had followed this up with a study of American Regionalism, which I noted was very scanty on the Mountain West. I thought this is where […]
[…] initiated excommunication proceedings against McMurrin.[15] When David O. McKay, then president of the Mormon church, heard the news he called McMurrin on the phone and arranged to meet him that same afternoon at the […]
[…] Lake temple and had voted in favor of his fine arts center. McKay, who delivered the good news, re minded a relieved Wilkinson, “I told you to go home and sleep and not worry, […]
[…] For Figure 1: Trend in Marital Happiness, GSS, see PDF below, p. 25] Here there is good news. After rising for several decades, the national divorce rate has reversed and is now declining. The […]
[…] responsible for the 16 January 2003 cover story for the scientific journal, Nature. Using some of the latest DNA re searching techniques, Whiting and Maxwell discovered revolutionary information which enhances the study of evolutionary […]
[…] Adam Clarke, whose multi-volume biblical commentary was first published in London in 1810 with at least ten American printings and editions in New York from 1811-1829, suggested that it was a marginal gloss which […]
[…] which this biography is a part—Remini skillfully places the Latter-day Saint leader within the context of Jacksonian American society: “To a large extent Smith and his Church were products of a uniquely American milieu. […]
[…] supernatural realm, where the spirits inform him of his future vocation.”[129] When Joseph Smith first delivered the news that he’d had a vision of God, he received no support outside his own family. His […]