[…] first introduced to William E. Berrett and the Church’s history when they were assigned in seminary to read his book The Restored Church (1940). Initially written in the late 1930s, this volume followed the […]
[…] references in the Harris letter, which some Mormons are claiming is a forgery.” The source for the news article was none other than Mark Hofmann, publicly bolstering his earlier forgeries from behind the scenes. […]
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[…] writing history, and biological characteristics we could expect from the Semites of Lehi’s area in the Old World. For example, on this last point, Soren son notes from the evidence of skeletons, art, and […]
[…] sleep with greater security? As I doze comfortably among the most decent and moral people in the world, I know I will be neither robbed nor murdered. I have even attempted to reactivate a […]
[…] President James A. Garfield in July 1881. In the weeks that followed, Americans anxiously read their local newspapers for the daily bulletins issued by the president’s physicians and followed Gar field’s death watch with […]
[…] to offset the potential preachiness. Her essay on sex education, for instance, begins, “In fifth grade I read Gone With the Wind, deducing from it that if my father were to lie down by […]
Sisters nod and smile, inclining intimately toward her in the crowded room. Years of testimonies shared and friendships deified linger in the worn cushions and heavy curtains. She brushes jostling shoulders, turns and feels […]
[…] sciences, but whether or not the “ideological baggage, the ques tions, values, and commitments which constitute” the worldview of secular historians are compatible with the subject matter being studied, in this case Mormonism (1983, […]