[…] Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The First Presidency of the Church is responsible for administering the laws and policies of the church as approved by its World Conferences (Rules of […]
[…] mystic, soft-spoken, but with unfailing good humor, flexibility, and tolerance. Both of her grandmothers—powerful matriarchs—were town midwives for many years and helped bring most of her contemporaries into the world. Her mother seems pale […]
[…] cases, controversies about LDS historical topics have spilled over into the national press. In the last generation, for example, disputes about the accuracy of Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History and Juanita Brooks’s […]
[…] psychological phenomenon. State suicide rates are still often used to study the effects of religion on suicide. For example, Utah suicide rates are given as a sort of rough approximation of suicide rates for […]
[…] most rewarding and durable of human relationships. As Mormons, many of us tend to have our needs for friendship filled by spouse, children, and extended family, enjoy colleagues at work and people in our […]
[…] House have no corner on the confusion market. Ann Eliza Webb, a disgruntled wife suing Brigham Young for divorce and hefty alimony, defrayed her expenses by writing a mildly scandalous pot boiler called Wife […]
[…] life. Furthermore, she created these in a virtual vacuum, working on an isolated ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming, for nearly forty-five years with no associates who understood her effort to translate Mormon values into art, […]
[…] was a crime and could not be prosecuted without proof of a marriage ceremony, evidence almost impossible for prosecutors to secure. Enforcement of the anti-polygamy laws in Utah was a “dead letter.” At least […]
[…] always foremost a place of Christian worship, as it has been throughout the centuries and will remain for ages to come, hallowed by the blood of the martyred Beckett who was assassinated there in […]
It has been observed that “many who look to Sherlock Holmes as the supreme literary spokesman for rationalism feel dismay and bewilderment about his creator having become a leading champion of a doctrine that […]