[…] to labor.” Wrote Young, Thatcher “throws away the Priesthood and hugs poli tics, rendering fealty to the world at the same time inconstant to his former vows.” Lorenzo Snow would agree a year later […]
[…] learning to obey all the rules and not always knowing why. This is especially hard in a world where everything you do usually has to have a reason.” Other, less prevalent stresses included the […]
[…] and dreamed dreams, re stored the church, and revealed the will of the Lord to a sinful world.” To resolve this “schizophrenic state of Mormon history, with its double interpretive strand of Joseph Smith […]
[…] manifest to me that they pertained to the new name that is given the saints that the world knows not of. To the descendant of slaves, a “new name” would have great significance. Jane […]
[…] admired his innovative lifestyle, carried out at the same time the LDS church sent missionaries around the world. Grandfather Munhall—a Methodist evangelist who traveled widely, knew the Bible “from front to back,” and wrote […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38 In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.
In September of 1993 Lavina Fielding Anderson was excommunicated from the LDS church for documenting and publishing instances of the church’s punishing treatment of Mormon intellectuals and feminists, as well as other instances of […]
When Orson Pratt, apostle and LDS Church historian, revised the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 at the direction of Brigham Young, he included Section 85 among some twenty-five other new sections. Section 85 is […]
I float in the corner of the university diving pool. My legs, which are more muscular and dense than my torso, pull me down. Closing my eyes, I’m rocked by the wake from a […]
[…] about 45 percent in the United States and Canada. By 2020, the majority of Mormons in the world will be Latin Americans, if the current growth rates continue. Judging from current LDS growth rates, […]