[…] the Gospel. —Daniel Cam, First mission president in Germay, 1853 Bremen is in many respects the freest German city I have so far visited, although city officials did not want to permit me to hold […]
[…] be obtained very easily; at others, the obtaining of them was difficult. The facility of approaching them, de pended in a great measure on the state of the moon. New moon and good Friday, […]
[…] Brace, 1998); Bernard G. Campbell, Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations, 4th ed. (Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter, 1998); Trent D. Stephens and D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding […]
[…] Matt said. “Can’t Jake drive the potato truck?” Tregan asked. “He’s got to go to the Rexburg City Council meeting,” Matt answered. “He has to get his Eagle project approved. He’s building duck boxes […]
[…] Cutlerites, and neighboring non-Mormon communities. A third period began with the twentieth-century arrival of Cutlerites to Independence, Missouri. In their new environment, where they were surrounded by a variety of Mormon sects, identity formation […]
[…] still true on January 28, 1832, as seen in the minutes of a meeting held in Independence, Missouri: “Names of Elders present who were ordained to the H.P.H. . . .” followed by “Names […]
[…] it could not publish religious literature, hold public meetings, operate schools, or freely move its ministers from city to city. The Protestants as a single group had obtained such recognition in 1850. This political […]
[…] all of its accoutrements, was fast becoming king in Utah, as elsewhere in the country. The coup de grace to Mormon hopes of political and economic isolation and power was given by the federal […]
[…] 6, 1830, by Joseph Smith. From New York the Church spread westward into northern Ohio and western Missouri. During the early 1830’s, the headquarters of the Church was in Kirtland, Ohio. Due to internal […]
This brief note summarizes findings from two surveys taken among Mormons during 1967-1969, one in Salt Lake City and one in “Coastal City,” northern California. Among the questions asked was the following: Most of […]