[…] Germs of the bacterial variety were discovered. Public hygiene began to filter in from England, and the latest recommendations were published in the Salt Lake Sanitarian with gratifying results. In 1870, George Q. Cannon […]
[…] Presidency. A few months later a “carefully revised” version of his speech was published in the Deseret News, followed by a formal statement from the First Presidency, listing several explicit errors in Orson’s writings.[60] […]
Prince: You have been involved in Guantanamo for some time, and recently one of your cases was in the headlines. Give us the background of the ongoing legal battles there, and then tell us […]
[…] York Encounter, “‘Without truth, there is no reconciliation’ | Bryan Stevenson | New York Encounter 2022,” YouTube video, 1:01:43, Feb. 23, 2022. [62] Jana Riess, “African American Mormon convert: LDS Church needs to ‘make […]
[…] grounds home.”[30] Andersen expressed joy concerning the help the Church provided to the Haitian people in a video clip posted on the Church’s Newsroom website. He is filmed in a spacious meetinghouse with high […]
[…] Mormon and LDS, as they, in his view, offend Jesus and please Satan. His pronouncement ignited the latest debate about what the Church should be called and how members should identify themselves. Less well-known […]
In a recent essay on the Mormons, David Brion Davis observed that “their history, in relation to American history, is much like Hamlet’s play-within-the play.”[1] Although analogies have their limitations, this one may prove […]
Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105 In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, […]
[…] origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of the book’s claims to antiquity who generally conclude that it is a pious fraud, written by Joseph Smith from information available in his immediate environment.
[…] variety of names like “Flag of Liberty,” “Flag of the Kingdom,” “Deseret Flag,” “mammoth flag,” and Young’s latest “flag of all the nations” to describe them. Obviously, more important than the shape, design, or […]