[…] their husbands, and husbands as kings and priests to God; the second anointing thus functioned as a de facto “marriage” sealing. Although after Smith’s death, Marinda was evidently sealed to Hyde, an occurrence Todd […]
[…] after when you’re doing an abstract painting? Richard: Abstract painting is not much different from realistic paint ing. How could that be, you might ask? When I paint realistically, it’s possible to recognize the […]
[…] red. She loved how Charlotte preferred to discuss the gospel while walking on the beach in Porte de Minimes even though it was still winter and windy, and Lucy could block out her companions […]
[…] to us for ten or fifteen minutes or so. (One of my fellow students must have been a friend of his.) At that point he was well known for his plays Huebener and Fire […]
William Wine Phelps, an influential Mormon high priest at Nauvoo, Illinois, wrote a long emotional letter on Christmas Day in 1844 which praised Mormonism, the martyred Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, […]
Writing in the mid-1990s, Mormon-watcher Massimo Introvigne made a counterintuitive observation about debates over Book of Mormon historicity among Mormon intellectuals, as compared to analogous debates between Protestant fundamentalists and liberals. Fundamentalists, despite their […]
[…] O. McKay, lifelong Republican and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eagerly anticipated a Republican sweep. At the news of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decisive win as the thirty-fourth American president, […]
[…] to the curb for Friday pick-up, unloading the dishwasher, walking Cleo to the end of the cul de sac and back. But instead of his perfunctory routine of feed and flee, he had lowered […]
[…] York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly discussion of their book […]
Mormons and vampires— a strange combination, indeed. Stephenie Meyer first brought them together in her mock-epic series of Twilight novels, a contemporary literary phenomenon that sprang, true to the classic gothic impulse, from the […]