[…] among knowledgeable Mormons, there was little agreement as to whether the “trial” followed the “established Church procedures”—or, for that matter, on what these procedures actually were. Many Mormons “knew” all the answers were to […]
[…] life. Furthermore, she created these in a virtual vacuum, working on an isolated ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming, for nearly forty-five years with no associates who understood her effort to translate Mormon values into art, […]
[…] land or by sea” {Times and Seasons, 1 Dec. 1845; HG 7:520-22). Pratt reminded his audience that for sixteen years the Latter-day Saints had been persecuted. In fact, in the previous few months mobs […]
[…] He was educated “privately” and then attended the University of Edinburgh, where he apparently failed to qualify for medical school, which he intended to enter (D. Stenhouse 1984). However, twice in his early political […]
[…] I returned from my mission in Germany. Since then I have finished graduate school, lived in Korea for a while, married, had two children. Yet my mission is still a constant in my life. […]
[…] ailing Sidney Rigdon, the only surviving member of the First Presidency, became entangled in an ecclesiastical dogfight for primacy. Young, a masterful strategist with a political adroitness and physical vitality lacking in Rigdon, easily […]
[…] tours a famous Los Angeles area church; our guides are members of the ministerial staff who recount for us various “miraculous” healings performed by the church’s celebrity founder. After the tour the class meets […]
[…] her over the years, and his old friend Bill Moran gave me a well-written diary and letters dating from the mid-1930s. I chose other representatives from each phase of his life to speak for […]
[…] ailing Sidney Rigdon, the only surviving member of the First Presidency, became entangled in an ecclesiastical dogfight for primacy. Young, a masterful strategist with a political adroitness and physical vitality lacking in Rigdon, easily […]
[…] spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.