[…] into small bands and dispersed among the local Church members, spreading the disease among the members. The news of the Zion’s Camp outbreak of cholera spread despite attempts to suppress it. Joseph Smith recorded […]
[…] in Zion. Indeed, he displayed a general hunger for information, asking one friend to “write all the news you can think of about Kirtland and Missouri and the affairs in that country,” and another […]
[…] affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard characterization, a “medieval”, anachronism. On the Mormon side, while the notion was […]
[…] I tried not to intrude on his thoughts which were no longer of me or of this world. Christmas came and most of the children were home. It was a happy time, with a […]
They were of the old people, two sisters With their measured tones and gunny sack Of nickels, dimes, and quarters To take out and polish when they met,
[…] the “unsponsored sector.” It is too bad you are so averse to editorial suggestions. It may be news to you that the best novelists-as well as the popular authors on the newstands-have all been […]
[…] the circle of home, neighbors, and ward rather than reaching out to the wider community or the world. But one decade was different, infused by an unusual degree of organized activism against poverty and […]
[…] of religion and the history of philosophy. McMurrin treats ideas not merely as landmarks in a particular world view but as entities that have a life of their own. The genius of his particular […]
[…] brought it with him.” “Listen to her,” Eunice said. “She’s completely out of touch with the real world.” “Let me tell you this, Eunice,” Aunt Betsy said. “The real world ain’t inside a bank.” […]
[…] the Iron Curtain. Many have relatives in the German Democratic Republic. The experiences of Nazi fascism and World War II left still-deep scars. Many older members who survived these years are convinced that any […]