In mid-1971 Wesley P. Walters discovered Justice Albert Neely’s bill of costs for 1826 in the damp basement of the Chenango County Jail in Norwich, New York, confirming Joseph Smith’s involvement in treasure digging. […]
[…] of scriptural injunctions and aperennial topic of Church leaders’ concern. Subtle changes inboth dress standards and rationales for modest dress in the latterhalf of the twentieth century reflect the LDS Church’s teachingsand attitudes toward […]
[…] see, much less meet a boy at M.I.A.” “Often we can’t get our parents to provide transportation for special M.I.A. events where we might meet fellows.” “Girls who don’t date in the Church date […]
[…] Book of Mormon have noted at least since H. Grant Vest that it is a historical problem for the book to quote from Isaiah chapters 40–66 because it is widely accepted in biblical scholarship […]
[…] as a story of conventional scholarly investigations by Latter-day Saint professionals, professors, and ecclesiastical leaders. These narratives foreground the efforts of educated, white, upper-middle-class professionals and Church-funded institutions based in Salt Lake City and […]
[…] LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that it has become an abstract form of authority that can be “held” (or withheld, as the case might be). In the ancient […]
[…] E. Bush, Jr. There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints During those early months in New York and […]
[…] society has taken over the past several decades, it was really just a matter of time be fore the widening gap between social circumstances in general and conditions in Mormondom became too large to […]
Media attention is a two-edged sword with the potential for both positive and negative publicity. Still, many societal actors find it important to stay in people’s minds through media exposure. Religious movements, for example, […]
[…] An active church member shares his struggles of being in the church while being gay.“Solus,” S-O-L-US-, latin for alone, by an anonymous gay may in the Fall 1976 issue is the first entry on […]