The Emma Smith Lore Reconsidered
April 18, 2018[…] him for the privilege of destroying it, that he became so weary of her teasing, and to get rid of her annoyance, he told her she might destroy it and she had done so, […]
[…] him for the privilege of destroying it, that he became so weary of her teasing, and to get rid of her annoyance, he told her she might destroy it and she had done so, […]
[…] gain security through such threats of destruction, but not both at the same time.” He claimed that service for peace with weapons was no longer as valid as service without weapons, that the grace period […]
[…] a jesting promise from the first wife that she could marry the husband after seven years of service. At the end of the seven years, she broke an engagement to another man, reminded the […]
[…] Women are often cited as the backbone of the church and extolled for the many hours of service they contribute. Yet the range of contributions open to them is quite limited compared to that […]
[…] by justice and mercy in human relationships. You don’t truly know religion if you don’t know the writing prophets of the Old Testament: Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. They were great thinkers and […]
[…] people he had told them a pack of falsehoods.” Instead he privately confronted his adversary after the service. They discussed the “falsehoods” for half an hour, but the recantation which Cannon sought was never […]
[…] been reviewed in DIALOGUE’S pages. And, in a culture that attempts to control its art and creative writing, the pages of DIALOGUE have been graced with the free and penetrating expression of Mormonism’s finest […]
[…] in those roles, but mostly because I stuck it out through school and have done a little writing over the years. While I would encourage education for any woman, I feel guilty when it […]
[…] the early morning lineup of regulars, the several dozen other residents of that forlorn territory, hoping to get in on the plasma donors program. Men warmed chilled bodies by sitting on open heating grates […]
[…] to express their feelings. Following the farewell testimony meeting of my first district of missionaries, I remember writing in a diary that no longer exists how I wished every member of the Church could […]