[…] Smith, Jr., which, along with that of Hyrum Smith, now stands on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. This commission presented a challenge which would not only demonstrate Young’s creative talent, but would also […]
[…] Novels published during the same period have been studied by Leonard J. Arrington and Jon Haupt, “The Missouri and Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 5 (Spring 1970): […]
[…] as that woman. (See Corbett, pp. 43-44.) During the next seven years, they left Kirtland, moved to Missouri, were driven out of Mis souri, and re-established themselves in Nauvoo. Hyrum was absent a great […]
William Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, has been easy to dismiss but difficult to deal with. More often than not, he has been described with adjectives like violent, wicked, unstable, and […]
[…] gathered together in conference at American Hall in New York City and listened to Apostle Orson Pratt deliver an impassioned call to exodus: “Brethren Awake !! Be determined to get out of this evil […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated several scholars who had challenged the Church’s positions on gen der, sexuality, and the family. In her 1992 book Women and Authority, for example, Maxine Hanks had […]
[…] means access to social mobility but also because tremendous and paradoxical similarities exist between the two religions despite their differences. In 2020, the LDS Church tallied 24,192 Latter-day Saints in Haiti. Conversion among Haitians, […]
[…] Eve at the beginning of time. To those members, the Truth of Mormonism depends on the histori city of its restorationist claims. Their faith is informed by “a historically correct and rational understanding of […]
[…] , 175). Gary James Bergera and Ronald Priddis, Brigham Young University: A House of Faith (Salt Lake City: Signature, 1985), 150. Ibid., 134-48. The Juvenile Instructor 46 (April 1911): 208. Ibid., 208-9. Deseret News, […]
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