Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57
Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] go as planned. When the obligatory request for negative votes was made, four in the congregation, all American missionaries, indicated opposition. The branch president, surprised and unsure of how to proceed, had the young […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83
I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
[…] from the ward joined with her. It is not obvious that plural marriage or Church domination of politics would have died out if they were merely left alone any more than that these people […]
[…] something about each work as a whole. Olmstead’s aim is “to achieve a fairly balanced treatment of American religion” by steering a middle course between a sociological and a theological emphasis. His technique is […]
[…] answer responsively questions about business affairs” (p. 283); and “the Church does not participate very much in politics” (p. 279). Readers will also be surprised to learn that a temple has recently been completed […]
[…] Chicago. Seventeen years after the company was founded, it merged, and 7 million dollars worth of McKesson-Robbins stock was turned over to Mr. Skaggs. While president of Skaggs-Stone, Brother Stone also served as President […]
[…] consider able sophistication in their treatment of the transformation of the doctrine of the gathering, showing why, today, it “could be accomplished anywhere in the world.” But they have failed to see the full […]
[…] Saints’ Herald 26, Oct. 1, 1879, 289–90. James H. Hart, “About the Book of Mormon,” Deseret Evening News, Mar. 25, 1884. Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature […]