[…] W.W. Phelps, 1833 There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and […]
[…] with guns, ammunition, and pocket Constitutions. The version carried by the Bundys, published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS), the former Freemen Institute (FI), is the same that Senator Mike Lee brandished […]
[…] be more authoritative.” A few days after this last editorial, the Church authorities presented this “unambiguous” document for a sustaining vote of the general conference. Yet during the next thirteen and a half years, […]
[…] a non-LDS sociologist projects Mormonism will be a world religion of 265 million members within 90 years. For more than a century the LDS church has dominated the Mountain West of America so completely […]
[…] been the dominant scholarly view of Pentateuchal origins. As the Mormon encounter with the Documentary Hypothesis has for all practical purposes been a 20th-century experience, it seems proper at the end of the century […]
[…] The Book of Mormon is not solely an ethical guideline; it is a report from the past. For orthodox Mormons, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from real gold plates, and the text […]
[…] of a Mr. Lane, a presiding elder of the Methodist church. Retiring to his bedroom, he prayed for forgiveness and enlightenment on which church was right. In response, an angel appeared and informed him about […]
[…] dispensation of the fulness of times. The Nauvoo period in LDS history was a time of “welding” for Joseph Smith: bringing together previous revelatory teachings and actively shaping rituals into “a whole and complete […]
[…] women might change the world.” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich With the recent momentous reduction of the minimum age for female missionaries, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may very well be at a […]
[…] into a mountain” (5:1) Luke has “he came down with them, and stood in the plain” (6:17). For the sake of simplicity I will refer to both as the Sermon on the Mount (hereafter […]