[…] not supposed to exist. That notion, as applied to the church Correlation program, suggests some intriguing possibilities. Today’s centralized church, situated in the American Intermountain West, works fastidiously to assure that the gospel message […]
[…] to it. “I do not mean to pray,” Swenson says in the poem’s next section. “But I am glad for the luck/ of light. Surely it is godly,/ that it makes all things/ begin, […]
Lowell L. Bennion was widely known among Latter-day Saints for his Christlike life and humanitarianism, as well as for his teaching and authorship of numerous church books and manuals.
[…] followed in most printed versions of the discourse since Grimshaw’s amalgamation was first published in the Deseret News, 8 July 1857. The last column is the more recent amalgamated text of the discourse prepared […]
[…] mile stone in Mormon letters. Although Tathea’s appearance was heralded by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, LDS-centered journal editors, either standing all amazed at this imaginative theological thunderbolt or overwhelmed by the […]
[…] credit for tackling squarely and sensitively the thorny issue of these unusual relationships with Joseph Smith, I am extremely dubious about his characterization of them as “polyandrous.” As I have pointed out in Religion […]
[…] summarize mate rial already in print. Quite the oppo site: while some pieces are familiar, the larger stories outlined here have yet to be fully told. The chapter on women and feminism centers on […]
[…] his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, this attitude continued to animate authoritative interpretations and defenses of Mormon doctrine […]
[…] the nineteenth century. For this reason, Mormon America could not have arrived at a better time. Though breaking no new scholarly ground, the authors have proffered a responsible, accessible, and engaging account of the […]
[…] Brigham Young” and other church officials covered the years to 1844 and was published in the Deseret News (Salt Lake City) and Millennial Star, 1863- 65. In subsequent years church historians and assistant church […]