Liahona and Iron Rod Revisited
April 19, 2018[…] in one of the research letters: “Each Saint, will he or nil he, lives in a private world of doctrine, shaped to a great degree by Joseph Smith and his reinterpreters, but shaped much […]
[…] in one of the research letters: “Each Saint, will he or nil he, lives in a private world of doctrine, shaped to a great degree by Joseph Smith and his reinterpreters, but shaped much […]
[…] Hitler was then a choirboy in Austria, avidly aspiring to become a priest. Only six years earlier, the United States had been engaged in a “splendid little war” on the largest Carribean island — […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98 Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
[…] recent Mormon historians. After suggesting some characteristically if not uniquely Mormon approaches to the history of the world and the Church that could be particularly illuminating for all humankind, he ended with a brisk […]
The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has prob ably brought mixed feelings to many Latter day Saints. Although some excellent scholarship has demonstrated that we have little or […]
[…] hand, kisses it in courtly fashion and repeats, without deviation, “How’s the sweetest little girl in the world?” I’ll also miss the nurses who care for my husband. Dedicated servants of the ill and […]
In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go home. […]
[…] is a conflict (Quinn 1985b). His splendid essay on authorized post-Manifesto marriages documents in painful detail the breaking of one truth against another (Quinn 1985a). I think of Nephi and his rebellious brothers—Nephi who […]
No husband summoned me to Koshi. BYU, Washington, D.C., and a mission president in Tokyo summoned me long before a husband. And even when it was a husband, he summoned me no farther than […]
[…] . . When these requirements . . . fail to match an individual’s unique vision of the world and his own experience, conflict begins to build immediately (p. 16). Kennedy goes on to suggest […]