[…] officially denounce such anti-Black teachings in church-sponsored venues, specifically General Conference, the Ensign magazine, or the Church News.” It is worth noting that for such a profound change in Church policy there was scarcely […]
[…] shrink or shun the fight? Thus the song most frequently heard by Mormon young people in the Mutual Improvement Association. In spirit it is close to the time when the Saints, awaiting invasion by […]
[…] Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his […]
[…] the United States, many of which have circulations of several hundred thousand. Yet once a particular day’s news is superseded by the next, what remains is available only to the few who are willing […]
<i>Dialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140</i><br> In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members […]
[…] can scarcely appreciate this predicament, given their ready access to the many LDS books, journals, media productions, videos, and educational events, even for their children. The very availability of these materials, even for those […]
[…] Andrew Jenson, Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 569; see also Andrew Jenson, Conference Report, April 1923, 78-81. Mark L Grover, “The […]
[…] 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88</i><br>Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints cultivate […]
[…] made a corollary of the gospel. What irony! The gospel is not just another ideology. The good news about Jesus Christ is an affront to all ideologies; it challenges all the presumptions we label […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints;” or on “Science and the Gospel” by Brother John A. Widtsoe, the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association Manual of 1908-1909. Both those latter brethren regard the earth as having a very […]