[…] 2-7. J. Reuben Clark, Jr., “When Are Church Leaders’ Words Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?” Church News Section of the Deseret News (July 31, 1954), pp. 2ff; Reprinted in Dialogue 12:2 (Summer, 1979) […]
[…] the public domain, that publication opened up the possibility of serious home study. A small but significant market began to develop among Mormons who wanted to be able to explore their own past, even […]
[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
[…] everything this year, even my son’s wedding, and I couldn’t walk out of the Federal Building without breaking my ankle. I’m scheduled to leave for Ireland in less than five weeks; all my plans […]
[…] do in the cave. If there is anything different about it in Utah, it may be that breaking away is strongly qualified. For young men particularly, going on a mission is the first point […]
[…] to hear that the mystery in his possession can be revealed through God’s prepared intervention in the world, and he derides the inferior knowledge of men, which is limited precisely because “they will not […]
[…] Many Doolittle (1802–1894) was a granddaughter of Joseph McKune Sr. and grew up knowing Emma. An 1887 newspaper interview with Mrs. Doolittle reported: “While Joe was upon his farm he had the Mormon Bible. […]
[…] in or committed to the Church. I concur with statements attributed to George Romney (New York Times News Service) that Udall knows that this is not the way to bring about the change that […]
[…] for teaching doctrine and principle “by study, and also by faith.” The next year, Joseph was studying English grammar, avidly and ably, and was teaching it at the School. Early in 1835, he superimposed […]
[…] Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo ritual system. On the other hand, this meant defining themselves against the Brighamites by breaking their silence on plural marriage. In addition to their own internal anxieties over plural marriage, which […]