Manhattan Faces
May 3, 2018If you like fresh air, 25¢ hamburgers, and security, New York may not be the place for you. If you want a Rinso-clean wash you can hang in the backyard, where crickets sound at […]
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Vardis Fisher and the Mormons
May 3, 2018[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842
April 26, 2018[…] 9.4 (Winter 1974): 21–34 Foster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “ The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before […]
The Alienation of an Apostle from His Quorum: The Moses Thatcher Case
April 18, 2018[…] 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 […]
What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC
April 16, 2018[…] 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 […]
“The Prophet Puzzle” Revisited
April 1, 2018[…] and dreamed dreams, re stored the church, and revealed the will of the Lord to a sinful world.”[1] To resolve this “schizophrenic state of Mormon history, with its double interpretive strand of Joseph Smith […]
Essay for June 9, 1998
March 31, 2018[…] manifest to me that they pertained to the new name that is given the saints that the world knows not of.[18] To the descendant of slaves, a “new name” would have great significance. Jane […]
Ella Smyth Peacock: Seeking Her Place in the West
March 31, 2018[…] 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 […]
The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution
March 27, 2018Dialogue 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.
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
March 26, 2018In 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 […]