[…] is a compelling tribute to the “everyday women of history,” as the jacket copy puts it. “Lively stories of courtship, love, inventiveness, humor, skulduggery, passion” are told in the words of eleven Western women who […]
[…] and sincere man when he writes: “After years of working with their lives and their words, I am deeply convinced that their printed testimonies must be taken at face value” (p. xii). But I don’t […]
[…] death. But it might be asked upon what principle? I will answer, on the principle that I am dealt justly by in the church. The next morning after our meeting I notice an article […]
[…] in the department. I don’t remember ever consciously saying to myself, “I’m going to make sure I am not provincial.” But in retrospect I can see that my fear helped dictate many of my […]
[…] criticism, especially those who are insecure. Sometimes I do manage to communicate warmly and effectively. When I am successful, the conflict may not be resolved; but unfailingly my personal relationship with the oppos ing […]
[…] Dec. 1839, LDS Archives. In Preston Nibley, Joseph Smith, The Prophet (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News Press, 1944), p. 418. Emma Smith Bidamon to Joseph Smith III, 11 Oct. 1866, RLDS Library-Archives. […]
[…] a peaceful world order that can operate without a balance of terror. “Thus,” says the paper, “even today, 22 years after the Heidelberg Theses, the church must recognize that the participation in the effort […]
[…] action as being needed for a long time. Next day a notice was published in the Deseret News that Thatcher had been “severed from the Council of Twelve Apostles and . . . deprived […]
[…] a Christian nation down the road to atheism. (“President McKay,” 1963) This statement, released to the Church News immediately following the announcement of the decision, contained no further explanatory comment. President McKay’s remarks reflect […]
The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has prob ably brought mixed feelings to many Latter day Saints. Although some excellent scholarship has demonstrated that we have little or nothing […]