This poignant observation by Dale L. Morgan was written even before World War II, and the erstwhile Utah sons and daughters spoken of are themselves now grandparents. Moreover, it is doubtful that anyone any […]
[…] the compounds of carbon, organic chemistry, and quantitative analysis. Stu dents had to keep current with Chemical News and The American Chemist, which was co-edited by William H. Chandler of Lehigh, a man from […]
[…] resistance, ten thousand paper cuts, ten thousand pleasures, and ten thousand pains. Miller gives us the depressing news that while we “may yet dream of the frictionless, of floating in zero-G,” like Phil, we […]
[…] that run throughout it: the impetus of desire for human connection and for joining two seemingly disparate worlds. In this aforementioned image, she places God in that space of desire, a lovely reversal and […]
[…] of being consistent to the point where church membership would dwindle away to the vanishing point, or breaking down the system in order to keep the churches going, the New England ministers held a […]
[…] before they were taken back into the custody of the angel. The story is fantastical and other worldly and has sparked both devotion and skepticism as well as widely varying assessments among historians. Critical […]
[…] the Kirtland Letterbook, 1829-35, pp. 1-6, LDS Church Archives. Edward Stevenson, “One of the Three Witnesses,” Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881. Reprinted in Millennial Star 44 (6 Feb. 1882): 86-87. Saints’ Herald 26 (1 […]
[…] Sensitive to public criticism about The Way to Perfection, the aging apostle denied in the LDS Church News and in Answers to Gospel Questions that he ever taught that Black people were an “inferior […]
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]
[…] of the General Authorities; and sermons typically addressed issues of doctrine and accommodation. Articles from the Deseret News, however, indicate a marked decline of popular support for female employment during this time. For example, […]