The Patriarchal Crisis of 1845
April 19, 2018[…] prefatory note: “As the nature of the office of Patriarch, does not seem to be fully un derstood, we thought a little explanation on this point might not be amiss.”If what followed failed in […]
[…] prefatory note: “As the nature of the office of Patriarch, does not seem to be fully un derstood, we thought a little explanation on this point might not be amiss.”If what followed failed in […]
[…] storage facilities to guard against leaks, or do one of a thousand other jobs. Richland is a city built by the nuclear weapons industry; it has one major industrial product: plutonium for nuclear weapons. […]
[…] weeks ago, I found great-grandmother Anne Harvey listed in the presidency of a Relief Society in Heber City in 1873 (1 Jan. 1873, 114). However, despite these involved ancestors, the spirit of Relief Society, […]
[…] Fred C. Collier, comp. and ed., The Teachings of President Brigham Young, Vol. 3, 1852–1854 (Salt Lake City: Collier’s Publishing Co., 1987), 49. Genesis 9:20–27. Letter from Joseph Smith, Jr. to Oliver Cowdrey, Latter-day […]
[…] thought, and history and its immense influence on the New Testament. The importance of Isaiah within broa der Christianity carries over into early Mormon texts as well, and readers of The Book of Mormon […]
[…] imagery indicated by this statement is almost paradoxical in light of his antisecret society rhetoric during the Missouri period (HC 3: 178-82, 303). Aside from this 1835 quotation, I am not familiar with any […]
[…] William Bradshaw of BYU, 2001. Joseph Fielding McConkie, Answers: Straightforward Answers to Tough Gospel Questions, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 155-165. Ellen G. White, Spiritual Gifts: Important Facts of Faith, in Connection with […]
[…] E. L. Kelley Papers, Library-Archives, the Auditorium, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri (hereafter RLDS archives). Ibid., 8; see also Lorenzo Saunders, Interview with William H. Kelley, 17 Sept. […]
Analogy is a fashionable device which many authors employ to embellish otherwise bland expositions, and few writers can resist the urge to compare certain individuals with what they regard as legitimate historic parallels. The […]
[…] the . .. Italian band.” Luke tells us, in Acts chapter 10, that this Roman was “a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the […]