[…] Fawn Brodie has said, “It may never be proved that Joseph saw View of the Hebrews before writing the Book of Mormon.” She, however, lapses into the genetic fallacy by continuing, “but the striking […]
These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed […]
[…] told me recently that his elders’ quorum president had advised quorum members to sign up for a service project. They would be gone from their homes from Friday afternoon until late Saturday and were […]
[…] task — an examination of the LDS Church as “a rising, authoritarian, powerful group” (p. x)—as a public service rather than from either an anti-religious or anti-democratic perspective. The result is six chapters of uneven […]
[…] bedf, egfh, gihj, iajc—the repeating lines gathering new weight and freight with each reappearance. I found myself writing about the angel wing and the comet. FIRST MEDITATION: THE COMET IS AN ANGEL WING Angel […]
[…] of therapy in lieu of prison, believe that homosexuality is like dandruff, a condition that one can get rid of if one will only take the trouble” (Maddox 1982, 156). In 1973 the American […]
[…] Sunbathing, that is, in a plastic yellow rainsuit and regulation orange life jacket, Coast Guard and Park Service approved. We’re in between rapids, in between storms, in between the two main trails that connect […]
[…] A letter on 11 March 1882 from Joseph Smith III to his uncle, William B. Smith, then writing a book about his career in Mormonism (1883), warns: I have long been engaged in removing […]
[…] the time Mark Hofmann returned from his mission in January 1976, professional LDS historians had been officially writing Mormon history for several years. However, Church leaders were giving mixed reviews to the efforts of […]
[…] performance of new polygamous marriages (Godfrey 1970). Today legal scholars and Mormon historians remain fascinated with Reynolds, writing a steady stream of articles on it and crediting the 1879 decision with the downfall of […]