[…] churches from governmental interference. But the “other side of the wall” presents a different picture. Writers from de Tocqueville to Paul Blanshard have raised questions about the propriety of church involvement in politics; but […]
[…] was a member of Zion’s Camp, the abortive expedition launched in 1834 to succor the Saints in Missouri; and, like others of its leading members, he was named in 1835 to the new, and highest, […]
[…] our Church.” This was something his Mormon critics considered impossible. For them such an attempt was a de facto denial of Mormonism’s claims to special inspiration. If Joseph Smith was a prophet, then what […]
[…] discuss these works in his biography, Defender of the Faith, The B. H. Roberts Story (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980), he devotes considerable attention to them in “B. H. Roberts and the Book of […]
[…] darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes.” In time, they “shall be a white and a de lightsome people.” As might be expected, literalist Latter-day Saints anticipated an actual blanching of the skin. […]
[…] to Provo five years earlier: the race for Utah’s governorship. A grassroots campaign, of which Salt Lake City mayor Adiel Stewart was one of the most vocal proponents, had been repeatedly calling for Wilkinson’s […]
[…] McMurrin described his mother, Gertrude Moss, as “completely open-minded and approachable, a person whose company I always de lighted in.” She hailed from ranch country, though hardly from humble circumstances. Her father, William Moss, […]
[…] for writing the book by examining the book’s rhetoric, and concluded: “Joseph Smith … regarded himself as de fender of God.” “Even if one believes that Joseph Smith was at best a scoundrel,” he […]
[…] learned say: I cannot read it. 19Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God will de liver again the book and the words thereof to him that is not learned; and the man […]
[…] the Poor: Church, Firm, and Household among Small-scale Entrepreneurs in Guatemala City (Amsterdam: Thela, 1999). Henri Gooren, De expanderende mormoonse kerk in Latijns Amerika: Schetsen uit een wijk in San Jose, Costa Rica (master’s […]