[…] died December 13, 1928, in his Centerville home at age ninety-seven. A 1933 article in a national news magazine evaluated his role. Mormon polygamy had almost become extinct, it explained, but “a schismatic cult […]
[…] Andrew Jenson, Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 569; see also Andrew Jenson, Conference Report, April 1923, 78-81. Mark L Grover, “The […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206</i><br>The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
[…] such abject suffering and unchecked destruction had only existed in the abstract—a brief image on the evening news. My parents had shielded me, I knew, and now I wanted to do something about all this […]
[…] were degraded and in darkness” and therefore needed special visions and revelations to show them the light. Breaking down Taylor’s sermon, he begins by showing “from . . . Scriptures . . . that man did once possess a […]
[…] Talmage, The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909), 150 (referring to the Middle Ages as the “dark ages—characterized by stagnation in the progress […]
<i>Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35</i><br> This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and […]
[…] of the messages coming from General Authorities of rural backgrounds and the alarmist editorials of the Deseret News against the “new” economics which have been accepted for over thirty years by both political parties. […]
[…] run the theoretical importance lies not so much in whether contact between the Old and the New World took place, but rather in the degree of impact such contact might have had on New […]
[…] to write poetry and combat enables him to sit a horse well and makes him fearless in breaking colts, &c. I noticed the heads of individuals very much now, and hope I shall continue […]