[…] Hyrum requested their friend and future prophet, John Taylor, sing “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief,” an English hymn that Taylor had recently included in both the Manchester and general Church hymnals. That hymn, […]
2019: Blaire Ostler, “Queer Polygamy” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1 (2019): 33–43. Ostler addresses the problems with what she terms the “Standard Model of Polygamy.” She discusses how these problems might…
[…] a century. Mormons usually considered that all Indians were Lamanites and that the “antiquities” of the New World were products of the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. As for the biblical area, that was of […]
[…] That arch-villain Brigham Young, they would say, foisted the image of a temporal-minded Joseph Smith upon the world. Brigham put into the mouth of a Joseph unavailable to defend himself doctrines which the Utah […]
[…] and variety of the critical literature devoted to him — since 1960 ten books have appeared in English on his thought — and by the fact that his books have sold, in English alone, […]
[…] his missionary controversies with the Christian sects; of his fight to get into action in the First World War, when he was commissioned a chaplain above the age limit because of his demonstrated physical […]
[…] thy favor take. John Greenleaf Whittier, Songs of Labor An article in the June 1, 1968, Church News entitled “BYU Gets Rare Books” described items of early Mormon interest recently purchased for Brig ham […]
[…] Armand Mauss’s study of “Mormonism and the Negro”) would be helpful in identifying those blind spots Mormons share with others. Regardless of the causes of apparent lack of concern, it is important to know […]
[…] miles away, Manchester village about five miles from the Smith farm, the ring of surrounding villages whose news neighbors would bring to the Smith house, or the western New York region? And of what […]
[…] are often of high quality, with substantial intellectual content. Second, editors of and writers for The Deseret News, Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, The Seer, The Frontier Guardian, The Mormon, and other publications of the […]