[…] 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 […]
[…] Smith was working on the Book of Mormon manuscript, these same issues were discussed throughout the Burned- over District of western New York state. Aside from obvious nonmetaphorical usages of the term “sealing” (e.g., […]
[…] “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 […]
With over-generous portions of direct quotations, Richard Lloyd Anderson presents the reader with statements made by the wit nesses to the Book of Mormon, and statements made by others affirming their good character and […]
[…] trying to teach you a lesson. God is testing you. God punishes those he loves. It’s probably for the best. It could be a lot worse. God gives people what they deserve. Did you […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the community. In the same issue, an editorial by W. W. Phelps referred to William as “Patriarch over the whole Church,” a description countered by editor John Taylor two weeks later. By this time […]
<i>Dialogue 16. 3 (Autumn 1983): 68–69</i><br>I would like to discuss teh social experience of historical Latter-day Saint single women in the context of five questions: (1) Does she have an acceptable reason for being […]