[…] tells us, were able to understand language in a way quite different from the way we do today. Much of today’s literary scholarship is an attempt to demonstrate how a reader must go beyond […]
[…] (Journal History, 5 Sept. 1848, 4). At the 1862 general conference, participants clapped their hands together (Deseret News, 15 Oct. 1862). Beginning in 1892, with the capstone laying at the Salt Lake Temple, participants […]
[…] Members of the quorums, however, would find themselves unable to keep the information to themselves and the news invariably spread through the conference. In the 1970s, President W. Wallace Smith opened the process significantly […]
[…] old priest hood manual written by T. Edgar Lyon. Later I found even older manuals for MIA and Sunday School by other Mormon authors such as E. E. Ericksen and B. H. Roberts. I […]
<i>Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154</i><br> England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which […]
[…] which incorporated the major books and articles from 1832 to 1959 in only eight pages. Now I am hard pressed to review as concisely the major books on just one topic. Despite a flood […]
[…] the practice of polygamy is closely associated in the popular mind with the Mormons, fascinating both scholars and casual readers, generating a plethora of anecdotal studies, and resulting in many oversimplifications and stereotypes. For […]
[…] to engrave a variety of images onto granite, including very detailed renditions of the various Mormon temples. Today commercially produced double gravestones featuring a temple as a central symbol more and more frequently mark […]
[…] the First Vision. Biblical criticism, properly understood, contradicts none of the cherished traditional LDS interpretations. All scriptural stories are literal. The Bible is best understood not by its own internal evidence but by interpretations […]
[…] years ago Latter-day Saints did not accept women’s expanded role in society as readily as they do today. When my first marriage ended in divorce, I was determined to complete my education. Though I […]