[…] Although Mormon proselyting was initiated in the nineteenth century here, most countries received full-time missionaries only after World War II, and some significantly later. After an initially slow start, church growth jumped sharply in […]
[…] conflicting messages, especially so given the progressive sympathies of media operators. Knowledge of being watched by the world acted as a further accelerator.” The reaction on the ideological level was clear. Mainline churches, like […]
[…] years, my exit from the ward doors to see what I could see in the big wide world? Why not talk about my en counters with other “isms”—Taoism, Buddhism, humanism, existential ism, fundamentalism, Sufism, […]
[…] McKay was assigned to undertake a one-year tour of various Latter-day Saint missions and schools throughout the world. In 1922 he assumed even more responsibilities when he was appointed president of the European Mission. […]
[…] with others, incarcerated there for having violated the U.S. law against plural marriage (called polygamy in the world). As the brethren came into the prison, I organized them into classes of bookkeeping. The course […]
Two decades have passed since Dialogue last published an issue entirely devoted to Mormon literature. In the meantime literary writing about Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87</i><br>Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
[…] priest at Nauvoo, Illinois, wrote a long emotional letter on Christmas Day in 1844 which praised Mormonism, the martyred Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, Don Carlos, and Samuel), and current Mormon […]
[…] part of a body of believers whose collective faith and devotion constitute a vital force in the world. I was reminded of this goodness while watching the October 2007 general conference on television. The […]
[…] good spanking. Then, when the credits rolled and the lights went up, you were still in another world, gaping at the gilt-edged ceiling medallions and the sparkling chandeliers, at the towering half pillars that […]