[…] areas where most missionaries could enjoy such civilized luxuries as paved roads, frequent public transportation, telephone lines, and running water. In recent years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an […]
[…] Joseph Fielding Smith in The Signs of the Times: A Series of Discussions (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1952), pp. 227-33, and by LeGrande Richards in Israel! Do You Know (Salt Lake City: […]
[…] before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. […]
[…] writer as well. So I focused my energies: I joined the student newspaper. I became a full-time news reporter. I got an MFA. I wrote articles, essays, and books, and eventually became a magazine […]
[…] a Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 240-41; and William Clayton’s Journal (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1921), 83, 91,136-137,143,149. Poulsen, The Landscape, 109; Richard H. Jackson, “Righteous and Environmental Change: The Mormons […]
[…] exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of Church attitudes towards blacks. The Gospel was for “all […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-genesis-of-a-churchs-stand-on-race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
[…] Sins are forgiven thee, go thy way walk in my Statutes and keep my commandments behold I am the Lord of glory I was crucifyed for the world. In this story, only one personage […]
[…] the lives of cities leave such a mark that time is thenceforth measured in terms of before and after. For example, following the Columbian Exposition that brought more than 27 million people to Chicago […]