Joseph Smith III’s 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
April 19, 2018[…] had no more idea of it falling upon me than of the most unlikely thing in the world, and I felt it come like a flash of lightening [sic] to my mind, and I […]
[…] had no more idea of it falling upon me than of the most unlikely thing in the world, and I felt it come like a flash of lightening [sic] to my mind, and I […]
[…] above all rule, all authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that to come. (Eph. 1:21). All other religions, philosophies, and teachings are false. […]
[…] share some of the ultimate objectives of proponents of school prayer and have little doubt that the world would be better if people moved closer to God. Nevertheless, I am convinced that the school […]
In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 as […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60 Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
[…] the first tree when Mother called them back to help with the packages. She always assumed the world owed her a living. Her motto was: Let everybody else do the world’s work and abide […]
[…] keep things in perspective, Kimball wrote on that day, “Priestcraft raged and devils howled but still the world turned on its axis.” On 6 January 1884, her commitment renewed, Mary went through with the […]
October 3, 1992, the first day of the 162d semiannual LDS general conference, was the 300th anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on […]
[…] mercy on the efforts of human deity personified by Prometheus—reason, intelligence, and enlightenment—to wrest control of the world. Perhaps, in Zeus’ blind vengeance against Prometheus for bestowing fire on mortals, the ancient Greeks personified […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]