[…] for teaching doctrine and principle “by study, and also by faith.” The next year, Joseph was studying English grammar, avidly and ably, and was teaching it at the School. Early in 1835, he superimposed […]
[…] within a year of the Manifesto, in a sermon by First Presidency counselor George Q. Cannon (Deseret News, 14 Nov. 1891). On that occasion, he explicitly stated that the document was given because the Saints […]
[…] disturbed by the Church’s reaction. The excommunication of Sonia Johnson “poured gasoline on the fires of misunderstanding.” News of the excommunication hit the media the weekend before Colton was scheduled to chair a preparatory […]
[…] of civil disobedience in at least some instances, few attempt to justify this second sort of law- breaking. In his recent and notable “Broadside” on civil disobedience Justice Abe Fortas states that in a […]
[…] have proved to be so useful that some historians now concede that a review of the contemporary fiction is a fruitful, if not an indispensable, preliminary to the search for historical truth in any period.
There is no use discussing the Bible as literature (whether the King James, the New English Bible, or any other version) with anyone who doesn’t read it as literature but merely searches its pages […]
[…] Tax Amendment to the Constitution. Some of these pieces of legislation evoked positive responses from the Deseret News, which from its inception has been owned and operated by the Church. An editorial on the […]
[…] far off the mark. It was an impression consistent with the observations of Richard Burton, the famous English traveller and linguist, who visited the City of the Saints in 1861. Burton reported that “All […]
How does an English graduate student who wants a visit to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]