[…] he says he has been “called” to “warn” Mormons to create more spiritually and to create solely for the Church and its plan. To recommend the singing of Church hymns over all other art […]
[…] relationships that are durable or that lead to marriage is a hallmark of finishing the divorce process. Dating partners or friends are chosen on the basis of current interest and needs. Rituals and habits […]
[…] appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the […]
[…] for President Smith questioning the reliability of radioactive time clocks such as radiocarbon. He argued that carbon dating is valid only if it is in equilibrium in the earth as a whole but for […]
[…] added folkloric dimension, of course, is the white horse as a symbol of good luck or magic, dating from Indo-European times. What does this sketch of Utah folklore tell us about the moral sanctions […]
[…] serve unto thee in all things as a father’s blessing according to the flesh, and even more for it is given by him who is appointed a father to the fatherless and Patriarch over […]
[…] the Hofmann-discovered documents authentic historical finds or ingenious forgeries? The answer to this question has important ramifications for both nineteenth-century and recent Mormon history. In exchange for a reduced sentence on one murder and […]
[…] not entirely active in the Church, that she did not attend Institute classes. Jay Andrus, my double- dating friend of the past decade, reminded me that no one else had done for me what […]
On 24 September 1977, a group of fifteen Latter-day Saint women met for a luncheon at the home of Anna Taylor in Orem, Utah. The group, including Taylor’s sister-in-law Fern Smoot Taylor, Wanda Scott, […]
[…] journal is indeed a special case. William Clayton’s Nauvoo Journal is composed of three separate handwritten notebooks dating from 27 November 1842 to 30 January 1846. It reflects an important period in the development […]