[…] the religiously “burned-over district” of New York state gave birth to the Book of Mormon in 1830. Despite its youthfulness, Mormonism is to mainline Christianity what early Christianity was to Judaism—a separatist Judeo-Christian movement […]
[…] McLellin to Joseph Smith III, July 1872, RLD S Research Library and Archives, The Auditorium, Independence , Missouri; hereafter RLD S Archives. For historical commentary on these early developments of Mormon polygamy, see Smith, […]
[…] Lake City: Clyde H. Harvey, 1975. Hayden, Dolores. Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism. Independence, Missouri: Church of Jesus Christ, 1974. Art and Music Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West: Art of […]
[…] because he began dictating this official narrative to clerk George W. Robinson on 27 April 1838 in Missouri, a southerly latitude where early spring was much warmer. This memory conflation (which changed western New […]
[…] more than by any other composer. The small, tightly-knit Mormon community at church headquarters in Salt Lake City knew that Stephens never married. A family who had been acquainted with him for decades commented: […]
Negroes of African descent presently are denied ordination to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the following article Lester E. Bush, Jr. discusses the genesis and development of […]
[…] York, 1854 edition. Ferris, Mrs. Benjamin G. The Mormons at Home; With Some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852-53. New York: AMS Press, Inc., Winter, 1970-71. $12.00. In a series of letters. […]
[…] have confronted Mormons “within the secular contexts of political, economic, and institutional needs, setting divine revelation asi de,” without shrinking from the controversal. “If,” in the words of the reviewer, “The Mormon Experience is […]
[…] April 9, 1852, Brigham Young rose once again to address a session of general conference. He inten ded to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the […]
[…] a blessing to a person of African descent and sought assistance from Church leaders in Salt Lake City. In 1934, the Duckworth family requested their patriarchal blessings, but they “had been accused of having […]