[…] into a Beyond the Block episode. The show has a modest but loyal following. As of this writing, there hasn’t been a congregation I’ve visited in the United States where there wasn’t someone familiar […]
Few Brazilian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will for get 1978, the year when two events significantly changed the Church in this South American country. The June announcement granting […]
[…] I was trained to believe that my Mormon ancestors and their tales of pioneer hardship in the service of the Church made me royal too. Even with that tainted Lee streak—we knew John D. […]
[…] Quorum of the Twelve to organize a branch, but several stakes could not organize a branch to gether. Some stakes, like Oakland, thought they were supposed to dissolve their special units. Others, like the […]
[…] — of our own house (1932, 19-20). Though Joseph Fielding Smith popularized the “less-than-valiant” explanation, his early writing had a tentative tone. “It is a reasonable thing to believe that the spirits of the […]
[…] move and motivate the community’s inhabitants’ social and cultural pathways. The quicker the young missionary (or senior service missionary, for that matter) can adopt and exhibit an inclusive viewpoint, the experience will become richly […]
[…] Zion. Edited by retired Community of Christ Apostle Andrew Bolton and BYU professor Casey Paul Griffiths, each essay is aimed toward a general audience with some background in the Restoration. The volume is considered […]
[…] for different reasons. I even supplied my own subordinating conjunction, “when,” to link the two statements to gether. Normally I am against this kind of nonsense, which is how people draw all sorts of […]
Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 62–72
Responding to Bush, Thomasson wrote in response to Lester Bush’s Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Review which that article caused him to reflect on what he believes and so it became to be very valuable for him personally.
[…] and that if the Lord thought it best to make a change at this time He could get through to His prophets and have a change made. However, as I will try to explain […]