[…] It used to be that we “prairie Mormons” outnumbered “mountain Mormons” in parts of the country, especially Missouri, Iowa, and Michigan. I grew up in Flint, Michigan, and attended the RLDS-sponsored Graceland College in […]
[…] perhaps even surpassing, the fondest dreams of those who had planned Nauvoo. Meanwhile, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Canada and Ohio, there were hundreds of faithful Saints in tiny, semi-isolated […]
[…] of reform, but Professor Thomas G. Alexander demonstrates in the following article that he had the capa city to judge each piece of legislation on its own merits rather than according to some preconceived […]
[…] Peter. “A Bibliography of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri,” BYU Studies, 12 (Summer 1972), 465-537. A highly informative description and discussion of 51 Mormon items […]
[…] Spence Hey wood, 1850 to 1856 includes Martha’s accounts of the trek west, life among Salt Lake City’s leading families and the settling Salt Creek (Nephi). The Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, wife of the […]
A recent listener-response radio program in Salt Lake City discussed the death of a young father from bleeding ulcers. Believing it wrong to seek medical help, he had sought a cure from an herbal […]
[…] large congregation of lawyers and ministers has assembled in the courthouse for an unusual sermon to be delivered by a brash young Mormonite missionary from Ohio. The tall lad, apparently uneducated and a bit […]
[…] church with the same simple organization through which we planted the church in Iowa and Illinois and Missouri a century ago.” Later they add, setting the stage for changes in expression, if not in […]
[…] landmark organizational study, Max Weber outlined three forms of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal. Originally charismatic un der Joseph Smith and to some extent under Brigham Young, by the late nineteenth century, leadership in […]
[…] life itself, aloof from its secular movements and interests.” On the other hand, however, “religion takes si des among the parties in the secular life” and as such it “is an element of secular […]