[…] my instrumentality; and the Elders signified a willingness to bear testimony of their truth to all the world. Woodruff further listed McLellin’s disaffection as a member of the Twelve, his excommunication, and subsequent activities […]
[…] (Summer 1994): 15–40 It would seem that Mormons who have believed for over a hundred years in the real existence of the Goddess, the Mother in Heaven, should be far ahead of other Christians […]
Sterling M. McMurrin, a man of letters, has spent most of his life in the world of affairs. A distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Utah for four decades, he held key […]
[…] thoughtful consideration, they conclude that certain events, felt by believers to be critically important to their faith, world view, and entire way of life, probably happened substantially differently than is represented in orthodox accounts? […]
[…] October 1861 , Richard C. Evans rose to fame and power experienced by few other members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth […]
During his twenty years from 1951 to 1971 as seventh president of BYU, Ernest L. Wilkinson molded the lackluster Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” […]
[…] night. He had extolled their wit, their sense of humor: “Dirt poor in the things of the world, but wonderful people! Humble! Spiritual! God’s children all!” “An inspired call!” he had declared, re-reading the […]
[…] word precedes that of any other literary redemptive mission: “If [we] cannot do justice to the visible world and make of it fictions which are believable, [we] cannot be trusted to bear witness to […]
[…] late 1920s who came of age during the Great Depression and endured the anxieties and sacrifices of World War II. Like my mother, moreover, Fawn was a caring, empathic individual who considered the welfare […]
[…] (Spring 2004): 75–94 However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the […]