[…] and suggest you spend neither time nor money to come but rather continue your work in Hamilton, Missouri” (Letterbook, 20 Feb. 1879). William accepted his work as a missionary with vigor, but nothing about […]
[…] however, Paul French’s novel of under two hundred pages entitled Nauvoo (fetchingly subtitled “The Saga of a City of Exiles: The Passions that Built and Destroyed It”) appeared in 1983 with hype from a […]
[…] is to participate in God’s redeeming activity by building Zion, the literal city of God, at Independence, Missouri. What kind of task confronts theologians if one begins with these fundamentals? Strictly speaking, theology in […]
[…] a comparable, if uneasy, limbo. With the passage of time, and increasing use of these techniques, a de facto if not ex cathedra judgment will have been affirmed that this is not an ecclesiastically […]
[…] the same pattern. Sam married his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth Parker (Lizzie), in 1881 in Salt Lake City. On a mission to England during the 1890s, he met Lizzie’s cousin, Amy Susan Johnson, and […]
[…] of self-aggrandizement showed his humility. When a committee of fellow professionals met with me in Salt Lake City, I showed them around the city. After we drove past the Governor’s Mansion they asked to […]
[…] years of Mormonism (p. 87). The transformation of the Latter-day Saint religious institution from a small mid-nineteenth-century de nomination to a major late-twentieth century religion, and particularly the Church hierarchy’s response to the perceived […]
Currently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines the Godhead as consisting of three separate and distinct personages or Gods: Elohim, or God the Father; Jehovah, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God both…
[…] must pass before the results can be seen. Test scores among sixth graders in the Salt Lake City schools are encouraging, and Indian students in Roosevelt, Uintah County, appear to be responding to a […]
[…] found in other depressed female populations. We used a random-digit phone dialing procedure in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area to identify both LDS and non-LDS women who were married, Caucasian, English speaking, and […]