[…] he was saying. Converts in foreign missions tend to think that a Mormon community will resemble the City of Enoch, an illusion sometimes fed by Church publications. Although during our thirty-two years in the […]
[…] this interview. Ezra Taft Benson, An Enemy Hath Done This, compiled by Jerreld L. Newquist (Salt Lake City: Parliament Publishers, 1969), p. 310. See Anthony Lobaido, “Cursed: Mecham’s Inherent Religious Bias Reveals Truth About […]
[…] “Because, of all the selfish ways he could have used his money, he chose to beautify New York City.” I hear that he has even consented to “look into” the problem of the New York […]
[…] Nauvoo period cannot account for this dramatic addition to Joseph’s record. Neither apostate Mormons, the persecutions in Missouri, nor Mormonism’s controversy with Christendom figure in Smith’s brief introduction to the letter. The journal entry […]
[…] Eliza herself, however, never submitted to a phrenological reading either in Nauvoo or later in Salt Lake City (though one was done posthumously, from a photograph), suggesting her disdain for the pseudo-science. Possibly, then, […]
[…] 1940s in the Utah desert common-property communities that continue to this day. Branches established in Salt Lake City are not communal. The order was never polygynous, does not proselytize, and never numbered more than […]
[…] great concern to the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Many Saints had died in the Mormon War in Missouri during 1838 and in malaria-ridden Nauvoo in the early 1840s. Finding a way to, in a […]
[…] Even more eloquent was the argument of Madalyn Taylor, a delegate of Santa Fe Stake near Independence, Missouri. “I would vote an emphatic no to this whole resolution,” she said, then continued: There was […]
[…] ancestors, with mixed results. Susan Howe’s “To my Great-great Grandmother, Written on a Flight to Salt Lake City” (p. 194) seems forced and the plains-crossing ancestor shadowy at best, while her “The Woman Whose […]
[…] and California has always been a sort of pilgrimage for me. I was born in Salt Lake City. Soon after that, my folks finished college and moved to Los Angeles. Later we moved to Mountain […]