[…] its way. That same month the official church newspaper, the Evening and Morning Star, published in Independence, Missouri, sought to prepare the way for the JST by explaining its significance under the headings, “Errors […]
[…] in three different Utah wards; attendance is still not much higher than 50 percent among a population de scended from pioneers and living where home teachers, family pressure, sometimes employment requirements, and social persuasion all […]
[…] which is housed, along with numerous other divisions, in a $31.5 million, twenty-eight-story structure in Salt Lake City with 566,000 square feet of office space and three levels of underground parking for 1,400 cars. […]
[…] is exemplary, beginning with his baptism by Joseph Smith at age eight in Nauvoo. Young George became de facto head of the house as his father’s church duties kept him away from the family […]
[…] some 800 have Christian roots. For two divergent perspectives on this early period, see Mari o S. De Pillis, “The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism, ” DIALOGU E 1 (Marc […]
[…] S. Johnson, who presided in more modern times over a large community of fundamentalists based in Colorado City, Arizona, was fairly typical. He was a son of one of the plural wives of Warren […]
[…] also are able to limit the amount of record matching required since the population of Salt Lake City in 1860 is relatively small. There were 8,191 people living in 1,496 households in Salt Lake […]
[…] Nov. 23, 1837, archives, The Auditorium, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), Independence, Missouri, in Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, 2d. ed., […]
[…] “the ‘family of God’ became more than metaphor.” For Smith’s disciples, the efficacy of their prophet’s sealings de pended on the source of his authority. In 1830 the Book of Mormon referred to “power, […]
[…] 1970 world conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) in Independence, Missouri, one of the delegates, A. H. (“Bud”) Edwards, rose to offer a substitute to a motion […]