As anti-war demonstrations gained in size and frequency throughout the Western world during the Gulf War, it is doubtful that many Latter-day Saints took part, if experience during earlier conflicts is anything to judge […]
For some time now, especially since World War II and the shock and guilt evoked in the Western world by the virtual extermination of the European Jews, traditional Christian views of the role of […]
[…] “The joy in my heart is great,” he wrote, at not being a prisoner of the material world, but being a member of “Christ’s great army” with “Brigham as its head.” At about the […]
[…] why are they not chosen? Because their hearts are set so much on the things of this world” (D&C 121:34-5). God calls many of us, but we usually default on his label of “chosen” […]
This paper will examine the vision or purported vision of the angel Moroni to Joseph Smith on the night of 21-22 September 1823, announcing the location of the gold plates containing the Book of […]
Of the Protestant denominations vying for converts in western New York during the early nineteenth century, Methodism is rightly regarded as having made the greatest religious impress on the young Joseph Smith. Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] their good works, their contradictions and ironies somehow suggested that politics was what we had in a world from which God had withdrawn. In Brodie’s biography, when Joseph broke the law for a higher […]
[…] life, every minute of peace we can offer. They deserve it. They, in their over-optimism, created a world so indulgent and interconnected that it couldn’t help but break when resources ran out, but they […]
[…] that the sisters never intended to be read publicly not only opens the door to the little-known world of feminine relationships between Mormon and non-Mormon kin but also enables us to understand the historical […]
In this important historical letter, Stewart Udall reflects on the need for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship […]