The World Conference is the highest legislative authority of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The First Presidency of the Church is responsible for administering the laws and policies of […]
[…] Lewis was a dry Mormon, who assuredly has accepted the Gospel in its fullness in the Spirit world.”[2] While the church clearly does not derive its doctrine from Lewis, he nonetheless turns up in […]
[…] earliest days, the church was preoccupied with its mission to seek out the descendants of Abraham through Jacob or Israel; these Israelites, in turn, would prepare the world for the millennial reign of the Messiah.
[…] sent her away. “It’s the chance to get educated and get ahead. To fit into the modern world outside the reservation.” This was after weeks of exasperated attempts to find out why Mary had […]
Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106 Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were […]
[…] a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
[…] on Nephi’s mention of the “five books of Moses,” which Sjodahl calls Nephi’s “testimony to a skeptical world.”[38] James Edward Homans, who wrote under the pen name of Robert C. Webb, wrote two of […]
Ever since the dark hours of September 11, I have been disquieted about what is now called “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation […]
From September 1910 through August 1911, in an unusual confluence of focus, four popular national magazines critiqued the Mormon Church and its prophet in a series of articles that Mormon leader and historian B. […]
[…] JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who […]