[…] young female Latter-day Saint then living with her mother and sisters in Philadelphia. The letter is remarkable for several reasons, notably the veiled glimpse it provides into Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy. A complete […]
[…] translated, which says that the words of a book, which are sealed, were presented to the learned; for thus has God determined to leave men without excuse, and show the meek that his arm […]
[…] she seemed almost too casual that night in 1956 when she told me my wife had filed for a divorce in a Provo court. I’d been visiting my parents, hoping a weekend away from […]
[…] had baptized Jesus. The importance of this universal ordinance lies in its saving quality. Baptism is essential for entrance into the Kingdom of God. This far-reaching effect, for the benefit of all mankind, before […]
[…] 82–85</i><br>Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had […]
[…] men sustained as prophets, seers and revelators reasoned, sometimes even argued, and sought the Lord in prayer for an answer to their difficulties. That God responded by confirming the rightness of what they had […]
[…] can never have any more, whatever goodhap the world may attain to. William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) The last time I saw the Coalville Tabernacle it was being decorated for a […]
David L. Wright did not begin to exist for me until more than a year after his death—in 1968 when I saw his play, Still the Mountain Wind. For other portions of the Mormon […]
[…] 82–91</i><br>Any constitutional amendment unavoidably casts a shadow of uncertaintyover its future interpretation and implementation. The Fourteenth Amendment, for example, has far exceeded the originally perceived purpose—elevating thestatus of blacks—and has come to serve as […]
[…] practice. Subsequently told and retold, the Lorin Woolley story came to form the foundation of priesthood authority for most Mormon polygamist offshoots, who now number in the tens of thousands. Working for more than […]