[…] well as the fear that Joseph, without Alvin, would not be able to pass the tests to get the plates. Joseph did not know what to do. The next year, on 22 September 1824, […]
[…] Mulino, 1991), 95, in Charles Richards, The New Italians (London: Penguin Books, 1995), 178-79. A Catholic Cardinal writing in the Jesuit publication La dvilta’ Cattolica in 1860 point ed out that even the Mormons […]
[…] begin to exercise un righteous dominion,” that is, they will try to put their authority to the service of covering their sins, or gratifying their pride and ambition, or exercising control and compulsion over […]
[…] institutional procedures. They are being groomed to assume local leadership positions on completion of their full-time proselyting service. It is in the mission field where the hybrid Mormon-American culture is most clearly modeled and […]
[…] shortly before her death, about how the Book of Mormon was produced. She stated, in part: In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by […]
[…] ritual. Not surprisingly, the parable of the prodigal son was often referred to by early Christian fathers writing on baptism, Christian initiation (where the candidate took off his regular clothes, was baptized naked, then […]
[…] called an inference to the best explanation. For example, if I read the Book of Mormon and get a certain warm feeling about it, I might infer abductively that the warm feeling is the […]
[…] Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, eds., Lion of the Lord: Essays on the Life and Service of Brigham Young (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.), 145,146. Allen and Leonard, The Story of […]
[…] where moth and rust doth not corrupt and where a kind Providence will reward them for their service to thousands of students.” He continued: “I believe that the members of this faculty will continue […]
[…] as a signal from voters that they would rather see Congress make progress forged in compromise than get stalled in ideological debates. Unhappy keepers of the flame in each camp, by themselves, couldn’t halt this […]