[…] no intention of practicing polygamy, but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it. —Anthony Maitland Stenhouse So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation […]
[…] that potential danger. Moreover, anti-Semitism does exist in Utah, and it is especially painful for children. I am grateful that anti-Semitism is not LDS pol icy. In fact, just the opposite is true. But […]
[…] reflective and theologically sophisticated than the literature in Genesis-Numbers. It contained distinctive phrases (i.e., “that you may live in the land which Yahweh our God gives you”). And the book presented a unique view […]
[…] the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through the […]
[…] not the first prediction from Rodney Stark that has proved pleasing to the LDS leadership. Yet, for today’s LDS members in Europe, the predicted “great days of gathering,” or, in President Hinckley’s terms, “second […]
[…] understand the significance of this horror for themselves? Every time a Mormon speaks in the novel, I am reminded of a 2022 review of Under the Banner of Heaven, a television crime drama set […]
[…] smile when she calls me hermana, her “sister.” Her reference to me signifies a dual meaning: I am not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among […]
[…] get through graduate school without such an awakening, especially when many of those writers seem so bland today that I wonder along with Sam Taylor “if most of them weren’t mainly victims of bad […]
[…] throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.
[…] already dry grass, and the atmosphere was hushed, inviting reverence. I could not hold back. “I walked today where Adam walked,” I sang, “in days of long ago. … ” Paul rebuked me for […]