Nauvoo
April 25, 2018I guess you could say that I’ve been a guest in my father’s house but have confined myself to one room. At any rate, that’s how I felt after visiting Nauvoo for the dedication of…
I guess you could say that I’ve been a guest in my father’s house but have confined myself to one room. At any rate, that’s how I felt after visiting Nauvoo for the dedication of…
[…] at once decided I would get there as quickly as possible.” This reflects Martha’s clear and straightforward writing style and her firm determination to reach her goals. Arriving in Salt Lake City in October […]
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In the first episode of this enlightening four-part series on Latter Day Struggles, host Valerie Hamaker welcomes back esteemed LDS theologian Fiona Givens. Together, they delve into the development of various atonement theologies and their…
[…] the Latter-day Saints Missionary System,” Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research 3 (January 1979): 22-27. Information for this essay has been taken from my forthcoming book, A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific […]
[…] their multi-authored organizational scheme seems to have prevented total success. Utah’s History can well serve as a college level text, since the quality of the individual chapters is predominantly high, and some of its […]
Following the phenomenal success of his book-turned-TV mini-series, Alex Haley described his work Roots as “faction,” a careful combination of history and fiction. Using what names, dates and places he could find in the records as a skeleton, he proceeded…