From Great Heights
March 19, 2018[…] BYU. Walk in like you live there and jump in. It’ll be fun.” Norman didn’t feel com fortable with sneaking in, treading the chilly water in his Levis, and then driving home shivering and […]
[…] BYU. Walk in like you live there and jump in. It’ll be fun.” Norman didn’t feel com fortable with sneaking in, treading the chilly water in his Levis, and then driving home shivering and […]
[…] the time when members of the Smith family joined the Presbyterian church in Palmyra. The primary source for this is two volumes of “Session Records” of the Palmyra congregation. Unfortunately, volume one, which would […]
[…] Smith fabricated his vision in 1838 when he began dictating his history to provide a starting point for his prophetic career that would counter the charge that he was a money digger and charlatan […]
[…] a written description of the duties and responsibilities of the office of Patriarch to the Church, and for that reason has usually figured largely in historical studies of the subject and period. “Patriarchal,” which […]
For more than two decades, Jerald and Sandra Tanner have devoted I their lives to exposing and trying to destroy Mormonism. They have succeeded in upsetting Mormons of various persuasions, largely because of […]
[…] growing numbers of single Mormons and the falling rates of marriage within Mormonism. Both of these trends reflect broad patterns in American culture, but we wanted to discuss what they mean for Mormons in particular.
[…] Mormon?” In these episodes of exoticization, I never knew what to say. The available identifiers seemed unsuited for me, unintelligible to them: Jack Mormon, recovering Mormon, ex-Mo, po-Mo, lapsed, inactive, less active, backslider, “it’s […]
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Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had […]
[…] amount almost can be done, since we are yet alive, it is worthwhile spending a little care, forethought, and money in preserving the art of bygone ages, of which (woe worth the while!) so […]
[…] Saints, was relieved of his office of apostle. Since this action came soon after he had run for the U.S. Senate without proper consent from his ecclesiastical superiors in the First Presidency of the […]