Amasa Mason Lyman (pronounced “AM-uh-see,” according to phonetically spelled family documents) made many important contributions to the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Until now, however, the apostle-turned-apostate has remained a peripheral […]
[…] a room stacked full of gold bars.” My father worked for Kennecott that summer. It was the world’s largest open-pit mine. “Was it a big room?” I asked. “Not very,” he said. “Like the […]
[…] snowdrifts cling grimly to tree roots, to shaded ground, and even these are not long for the world. It’s warm for February. The Ranger leads the group into a dry, sunny clearing. He stops, […]
[…] journal. I didn’t know he had kept one, and his worn leather journal had entries for every single day of his mission from October of 1906 to October of 1908 in the Northern States Mission.
[…] by current and former Church leaders because such teachings typically do not receive as much emphasis from the pulpit and in Church curriculum materials as other more core teachings. Nevertheless, the LDS canon of […]
[…] by 1924, there were only a dozen or so active churchgoers. The resumption of Mormon missionary work after World War II nearly had to begin from square one. The heart of Nielson’s work is his […]
[…] to. One cannot talk in church on Mother’s Day without venturing into territory like women’s role in the Church and its relation to motherhood. Antique maps mark such territories with warnings like “There Be […]
[…] Joseph F. spends a good deal of time loafing. Many days are spent in reading the Deseret News, mending his shoes, hiking in the jungle, or watching ships come in to the harbor at […]
[…] terrestrial signs, and revealed in the flesh in Christ’s ministry to his “lost sheep” of the New World. Mormons celebrate Christian holy days such as Easter and Christmas. The very name of the Church […]
[…] who attend the meeting, ranging from maybe twenty-five to seventy years old in assorted but not-viable-in–the outside- world states of mental and physical non-well-being, are scattered around the room, some on couches and folding-chairs […]