Gary Shepherd

GARY SHEPHERD is a professor of sociology at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

The RLDS Conference | The Conferring Church by M. Richard Troeh and Marjorie Troeh

Dialogue 22.2 (Summer 1992): 146–147
In The Conferring Church, Richard and Marjorie Troeh present a detailed description of the RLDS conference process.

Membership Growth, Church Activity, and Missionary Recruitment

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

To comprehend the potential emergence of Mormonism as a major religious force in the twenty-first century, it is essential to comprehend the missionary ideology and practices of the LDS church. For rank-and-file Latter-day Saints, this proposition seems simply axiomatic of their foundational faith in the restoration of Christ’s gospel and their divine man date to convert the world in anticipation of his second advent.