[…] immature” (p. 111). “Through the miracle of modern communication, testimony now transcends a community and confronts a world” (p. 90). Cowdery’s first missionary journey is “as spectacular as any of the apostle Paul” (p. […]
[…] get something for nothing. Utah is un fortunately known as one of the fraud capitals of the English-speaking world. We tend to hope that pyramid schemes and Ponzi maneuvers are legitimate vehicles on the […]
[…] Ancient Book,” is inconclusive (pp. 76-94). Griggs correctly observes that “the assumption that any parallels from the world of Joseph Smith, real or imagined, are sufficient to discredit the authenticity of the work is […]
[…] by the vicissitudes of modernization to find a religious life which allowed them to cope with a world they did not like but could not change. They adopted a new world view which provided […]
[…] Mormons in cartoon and line drawings during a period of our national experience when Mormons drew a large share of editorial venom. Motivated by similar studies of blacks, Jews, and native Americans, Bunker and Bitton […]
[…] to the long grass on the side of the creek, but she was drowned” (p. 48). We share the righteous anger of Fort Limhi missionaries who “drew up a list of Indians” that had […]
[…] you know that Max E. Powers was in attendance at the grand council in heaven before the world was created, and that David Bruce Longo and the Holy Ghost are one and the same? […]
Latter-day Saints share a belief in and a commitment to the Restoration. The LDS and RLDS churches declare that God spoke to the Prophet Joseph Smith that a people might by covenant be commissioned. […]
[…] than litmus, Mr. Garratt. A long long way past Troy. Consideration III In the 60s my freshman English classes stayed at maybe thirty. Names came easy—in college only surnames plus Mr., Miss, now and […]
[…] is per haps misleading, but certainly no real dis traction. A Woman of Destiny traces a fictional English family, the Kirkhams—Anna and John and their children Robert, Charlie, and Dinah—in their struggle to survive […]