[…] 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 […]
[…] Saints in the Eastern Country and bring them to Zion to Esstablish Iron foundries.”[2] England was the world center for the iron trade at the time, and modern iron-making techniques and machinery were developed […]
[…] other back. Ahead is a new period as Mormonism becomes a worldwide church, entailing increased contact with world religions and with the secular culture of the modern world. Over the next two decades millions […]
[…] the Roman governor that this wonderful Man, with His exalted views of a kingdom not of this world, and an empire of truth in which He was to reign, was no political insurrectionist.”[1] Sixty-two […]
[…] That is, should the Church shape itself to the pressing and sophisticated needs of the contemporary urban world, as well as attempt if it can to shape the world in the traditional Mormon image? […]
[…] colonizing days are over now, and the Church is part of a major political presence in the world, no longer the colonized, but rather the colonizer. In this article, I argue that the Utah-based […]
In the introduction to his epic short story, “A River Runs Through It,” Norman Maclean wrote that his primary aim was to let his “children know what kind of people their parents are or […]
[…] revelation texts carved out a complex system of ranks, offices, jurisdictions, and judicial bodies that implicitly rejected the feminization of Protestantism, while forwarding a selective blend of biblical terminology, Book of Mormon-defined praxis, and […]
[…] by the power of faith, could draw aside the curtain of eternity and gaze upon the invisible world. There were men who could tell the destiny of the human family, and the events which […]
[…] discovery of Mormon belief and practices, predicted that if something did not change the Mormon “course, the world’s history will not furnish a parallel of degradation and wretchedness.”[13] Among the earliest observers to suggest […]