This brief note summarizes findings from two surveys taken among Mormons during 1967-1969, one in Salt Lake City and one in “Coastal City,” northern California. Among the questions asked was the following: Most of […]
[…] conflict was best captured by Vice President Schuyler Colfax, following a visit in 1869 to Salt Lake City: “It is time to understand whether the authority of Brigham Young is the supreme power in […]
[…] Cutlerites, and neighboring non-Mormon communities. A third period began with the twentieth-century arrival of Cutlerites to Independence, Missouri. In their new environment, where they were surrounded by a variety of Mormon sects, identity formation […]
[…] it could not publish religious literature, hold public meetings, operate schools, or freely move its ministers from city to city. The Protestants as a single group had obtained such recognition in 1850. This political […]
[…] now they played in places like the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium, a little hall with a capa city of eighteen hundred. Tregan mostly listened to new bands like Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold, but he […]
[…] 6, 1830, by Joseph Smith. From New York the Church spread westward into northern Ohio and western Missouri. During the early 1830’s, the headquarters of the Church was in Kirtland, Ohio. Due to internal […]
[…] life with attacks upon the supposed evils of polygamy. Although most early moviemakers could not be called dedicated anti-Mormons, their unfamiliarity with LDS doctrine and history, as well as a lack of contemporary information […]
But now a most singular & delicate subject presented itself for consideration. Seven young women we had on board, as passengers, to visit certain friends they had in Britain—Three of them were ladies of […]
[…] in a 1948 article in the Improvement Era. He then outlines his method for testing the authenti city of the author/translator: “We shall match the story step by step with a number of Old […]
[…] that these physical ordinations literally transferred a materialistic spirit, similar to the “laws and operations of electri city. . . . It is imparted by the contact of two bodies, through the channel of […]