An “Inside-Outsider” in Zion
April 19, 2018[…] So I packed the manuscript up and mailed it off to Salt Lake City, adding a c overing note which said, in effect, “Look, honey (I call everybody ‘honey’; it’s my Southern upbringing), I […]
[…] So I packed the manuscript up and mailed it off to Salt Lake City, adding a c overing note which said, in effect, “Look, honey (I call everybody ‘honey’; it’s my Southern upbringing), I […]
[…] Mormon pamphleteer was Orson Pratt. From his conversion in 1830 to his death in 1881, he authored over thirty works on both religious and scientific topics. Influential during his own lifetime, he wielded even […]
[…] Scriptural instructions show the bishop’s responsibilities in four general cate gories: presidency of the Aaronic priesthood; stewardship over the temporal affairs of the Church; pastoral care of his members; and judicial authority over those […]
[…] is the representative man of Mormonism’s role in American social history. It is valid to deplore debates over the golden tablets, rampant (on both sides) since Alexander Campbell’s cutting Delusions and Henry Caswall’s patronizing […]
[…] an answer according to their erring desires.” Official Church histories contain no record of disagreement or contr oversy, and the significance of the event may have been perceived differently as time passed. The new […]
[…] “I used to play in the garret alone,” Emmeline remembered, “day after day when school hours were over and amuse myself, and often my sister would come and listen to my conversation with my […]
[…] allegations as true. Writing to Brigham Young from Boston 9 October 1844, he said: I soon disc overed from various sources that the conduct of Wm. Smith, Adams, Brannan, Ball and others had been […]
[…] complete, it is a sacrilege to ornament them; and because the Brethren are divinely called as stewards over the modern relevance of the text, it is a sacrilege for anyone else to expound upon […]
[…] it may be that all of us would do well to get, in some ways, closer still. For a people who manage to watch 251 murders a year on TV, we Americans—and more especially […]
[…] collapsed and buried my brother in-law under tons of grain. At his funeral, a speaker offered com fort by saying that God “had need of Leon on the other side.” One of Leon’s young […]