[…] True religion has never been respectable. If you are laughed at, laugh along. If you are criticized, search your souls. Jesus did not say, “count my sheep.” He said, “feed my sheep.” Do not […]
The prophet Joseph Smith once told Nancy Rigdon, whom he was attempting to persuade to become his plural wife, that whatever God required was right, no matter what it was (374). Smith went on to…
At the baptismal Erma sings “Que grande es El,” her voice breaking, and the woman she has brought to Jesus, clothed in white on the front row, weeps.
[…] briefly studied phonography (today we would say stenography), and for many years doggedly sought a revolution in English orthography. When time per mitted, he walked a half block from his office to ensure sobriety […]
[…] metallic plates. But even a cursory survey of early nineteenth-century literature disproves such a claim. Translated into English by Thomas C. Upham, John’s Biblical Archaeology was published in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1823, five years […]
[…] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Century I, 6 vols., (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), vol. 2; Brodie, No Man Knows My History; Donna Hill, Joseph Smith: The First […]
[…] station wagon from one side of the street to the other. “Hey,” he said, “ask Faith the news.” Apparently not able to wait, he continued, “Her boss, the director of volunteers and services, is […]
[…] farm depression of the 1920s, who were streaming to Salt Lake City (and other western cities) in search of work. This was a time when the “Social Gospel Movement” common in American Protestantism was […]
At age sixty-eight I have lived long enough to know some of the sorrows of this life. More than once I have cried out with the Psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice!”
[…] And as modern versions gain the ascendancy throughout the world, Mormonism may be forced to accept modern English versions as well. Then, Barlow asks, “will not the language of their Book of Mormon and […]