[…] and relief. It was not uncommon to see framed portraits of Church leaders hanging near the rostrum. For example, the Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward chapel featured portraits of Brigham Young and local authorities over […]
[…] dramatically and radically changed from within while it attempts to withstand intense pressure from media and government for its unique religious practices, as well as allegations of fraud and abuse. On May 6, 2006, […]
Because for a very long time the office of high priestess had been forgotten and her characteristic features were nowhere indicated, I bethought myself day after day. The appointed time arrived, the doors were […]
[…] few years earlier when he was running against our fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney, and had been pushing for its legalization ever since. What a strange concept it was to me. Let two men get […]
[…] this essay provides new ways of understanding Joseph’s narrative, analyzes previously neglected issues/data, and establishes a basis for perceiving in detail what the teenage boy experienced in the religious revivalism that led to his […]
[…] and Eugene England gives his own theological interpretation of Bush’s findings. Each of these statements suggests areas for further study and together they reveal that there is still considerable research and thinking to be […]
[…] a non-LDS sociologist projects Mormonism will be a world religion of 265 million members within 90 years. For more than a century the LDS church has dominated the Mountain West of America so completely […]
1 On 24 September 1890, President Wil ford Woodruff issued his famous Manifesto which stated in part, “. . . and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have […]
[…] The Book of Mormon is not solely an ethical guideline; it is a report from the past. For orthodox Mormons, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from real gold plates, and the text […]
[…] to his prayer, “two glorious personages,” identified as the Father and the Son, appeared to him, in forming him that all the religious denominations were wrong. He was told to await further enlightenment, which […]