Road to Damascus
April 25, 2018[…] face against a grey, warping plank. “You’re going to go, are you?” she said finally. “Yes, ma’ am, I’m going. I told the boys I’d come and I told you I was going. Now […]
[…] face against a grey, warping plank. “You’re going to go, are you?” she said finally. “Yes, ma’ am, I’m going. I told the boys I’d come and I told you I was going. Now […]
When are the writings and Sermons of Church Leaders entitled to the claim of being scripture? I assume the scripture behind this question is the declaration of the Lord in a revelation given through […]
[…] Military Posts,” 5 December 1870 (New York: Sol Lewis, 1974), p. 366. “Report of Surgeon E.P. Vollum, USA,” in John Shaw Billings, War Department Surgeon General’s Office Circular No. 8, “Report on the Hygiene […]
[…] Mormons. An early manifestation of this problem was President Buchanan’s decision to send U.S. troops to Utah, news of whose coming reached the Salt Lake Valley on the tenth anniversary of the pioneers’ arrival. […]
[…] when in comes Claude with hay in his hair and manure on his shoes (he heard the news while milking), and he says he’s just come to say goodbye and gosh, honey, I’m going […]
[…] 1930, warned bishops that young men using tobacco were not to be called on missions. Ruth May Fox, President of the YWMIA, asked Mormon girls to abstain from smoking and drinking in order to […]
[…] center for their Monday meeting. Sonia Johnson’s excommunication hit the media that weekend. By Mon day the news was everywhere, including our meeting. The rooms were over flowing with three times the expected number […]
[…] . . and dwell in righteousness with men on earth a thousand years” (D&C 29:11) for “I am in your midst and ye cannot see me” (D&C 38:7). The revelation of Baha’u’llah has given […]
[…] 1906, General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News ), p. 19, here after cited as Conference Reports. “Priesthood Quorum’s Table,” Improvement Era 17 (May […]
[…] make a start toward acknowledging women’s roles in the settling of Zion. Certainly, getting bits of their stories between book covers does something towards greater recognition for our Mormon foremothers. But the significant question […]