[…] 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 […]
[…] divinely inspired” and 72 percent believing that “the United States has a special role to play in world affairs and should behave differently than other nations.” They conclude that it is “only a short […]
In 1842, Joseph Smith wrote a letter to John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat, outlining “the rise, progress, persecution, and faith of the Latter-day Saints.”That letter concluded with thirteen “Articles of Faith” that […]
[…] invitation to speak to you today very seriously. I give this message motivated by love and concern and hope for all of us, and I ask you to accept these words in the same way.
[…] purity and virtue were so central to the stability of society that they required protection from the world of hard manual and intellectual labor, the divisive realms of politics, and the competitive individualist industrial […]