[…] italics added). The greatest opposition to the Edmunds Bill on this first day of debate came from Missouri’s George G. Vest. Even though some the darkest moments of early Mormon history occurred in Missouri, […]
[…] the Church in this South American country. The June announcement granting the priesthood to males of African descent eliminated a doctrine and policy that had touched most Brazilian members in a personal way, relieving […]
[…] capitalize on public interest in the Utah War, James O. Wright, a non-Mormon publisher in New York City, printed in 1858 a commercial version of the now-out-of-copyright Book of Mormon. For unknown reasons, Wright […]
The power struggle inherent in the Arab-Israeli confrontation is taking place in a deep chasm of conflicting goals and aspirations. The visible issues that separate the Arabs and Israelis may not seem overly complex […]
Although Tolstoy is remembered today as a great novelist, short story writer and dramatist—the Russians consi der him to be nearly as significant as Shakespeare in world literature—he would no doubt prefer to be […]
[…] civil rights and conservation. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for Across the Wide Missouri in 1948 and the National Book Award for The Course of Empire in 1952. He was […]
[…] educating and providing compassionate service to its own members, carrying out instructions passed on from priesthood lea ders, keeping its own organization running smoothly — a responding organization rather than an initiating one. Neither […]
[…] other ward leaders, including my husband, who now serves as bishop of the same ward. Any large city attracts people from their original homes and extended families—many for professional or educational reasons, some because […]
[…] as senior assistant director. On June 11, 2000, I interviewed him in my home in Salt Lake City. What is Affirmation? Affirmation, Gay & Lesbian Mormons, is a social support group for gay, lesbian, […]
[…] locus. As Joseph Milner has pointed out, the rescue of the “precious ore” of the original theological deposit is made particularly onerous, threatened as it is by rapidly growing mounds of accumulating cultural and […]