[…] was a time when the decisions of the Supreme Court could not have done everything we ask today.” Hansen also says (and she should be honored for her candor) that “The Fourteenth Amendment, for […]
[…] Mormons were the chosen; that the Creator would protect his children against the outrages of an unenlightened world, as he did Abraham, Moses, Job and even the Puritans; that in the hour of darkness […]
[…] what polygamy might look like. Additionally, this makes God a patriarchal monarch whose power and glory aren’t shared with his family and community but used at the expense of his family and community. If […]
[…] his second wife (Tanner 1976, 12, 57—69). Annie Tanner’s perspective on the necessity of plural marriage was shared by Emma Romney Eyring. Emma grew up in the Mormon colonies in Mexico where “close to […]
[…] missionaries thus inherited a difficult situation epitomized by an incident in 1949. As a result of teaching English classes, the missionaries were able to interest some professors at a local college in attending church. […]
[…] after their apologies from those who were skeptical that they would be followed by action. The good news for The Church of Jesus Christ is that it has already begun taking some of the […]
[…] the Church as the text for new lesson cycles it was reprinted at least 16 times in English (including in 1935, ’40, ’43, ’49, ’51, ’53, ’56, ’58, ’60, ’63, ’66, ’72, ’78, and […]
[…] added light. No one can answer all my pain but Thee, Ordain me to my womanhood, and share The light that Queens and Priestesses must bear, Wilcox 1987, 73 The Fall of Eve Perhaps […]
[…] initiated in a revelation to the church, Section 156 of the Doctrine and Covenants, presented to the World Conference by Dr. Wallace B. Smith, President and Prophet, and overwhelmingly approved by the delegates assembled […]
[…] teach the gospel to. So I stopped them, doggedly, and asked if we could come over and share a message, or cut their lawn, or anything, please. I never converted a family to the […]