[…] complete extermination.” A number of the Twelve, meeting with members of an organization called the Salt Lake City Betterment Committee, agreed to implement an October 1907 General Conference resolution, to do all in their […]
[…] on to make general observations about the topic rather than limited ones about the books being consi dered, the text read like an essay, not a book review. What was I to do with […]
[…] image of the monolith has come to apply to Mor monism in ways which its young foun der could hardly have foreseen. As the Church has grown in size, it has placed increasing emphasis […]
[…] the westward migration during the California gold rush era and its impact on newly established Salt Lake City. Although most readers are aware that thousands stopped in Salt Lake on their way to the […]
[…] poetic borrowing at Nauvoo, however, differed from Phelps’s in at least one respect: the end of the Missouri oppressions and the beginning of Illinois prosperity brought a rapprochement with secular culture. The Mississippi left […]
[…] on the obedience apparently required of Church members, the response it sparked from a concerned Salt Lake City Unitarian minister, and the response of Church President George Albert Smith to both documents seem appropriate […]
At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary “trouble” to adequately research the subject. Stanley Hirshon was judged guilty of this offense in […]
[…] Smith, Jr., gave Joseph Smith III that is now in possession of the RLDS Church in Independence, Missouri, and that it explains why the blessing was in Bullock’s possession so many years after it […]
[…] I know they aren’t. They were separated not merely by worlds, but by lifetimes. Maggie was off-road Missouri, small-town Utah, through and through. Maggie was the past. Still, I replay that evening news in […]
[…] Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown. I was born in Granger, Utah, west of Salt Lake City, on 24 October 1883, a second son and fifth child. Like most, my first memories are […]