The Manifesto Was a Victory!
April 30, 2018Di alogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45
Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he […]
Di alogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45
Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he […]
[…] Saints moves past the centennial of Wilford Woodruffs announcement on plural marriage, there is still considerable misunderstand ing as to what the “Manifesto” was and how it came about. Most people who know anything […]
Polygamy, marriage to more than one spouse at a time, cannot be seen in the fossil record of our primitive ancestor, Homo erectus, and no one knows if Lucy of the African Rift, reputed […]
[…] as we crossed the Ohio River bridges into Louisville. “This is the South, the damned and damn ing South.” We were driving Highways 65 and 40 south to Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, the center […]
Declar ing the lineage of Black Latter-day Saints is a challenging problem for patriarchs in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormons, like many Protestant Christians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, […]
[…] the LDS church changed 2 Nephi 30:6 in the Book of Mormon from “and many generations sh all not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and delightsome people” to “and […]
[…] the . .. Italian band.” Luke tells us, in Acts chapter 10, that this Roman was “a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the […]
Di alogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 78–86
Responding to Bush, Eugene England compared the story of Abraham which is uncomfortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has […]
[…] has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community. As recently as 1979, Leonard Arl ington and Davis Bitton wrote, “There are no great pressures from Latter-day Saints for priesthood for women, […]
Di alogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230
I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have […]