[…] the great explorers, orators, and missionaries of the Mormons.” His Voice of Warning and Key to Theology —suitably edited—are reprinted more as memorabilia than as important pieces of gospel exposition. Forgotten is the fact […]
[…] whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” The shift from bind to seal —probably to remove “papist” associations with the text—does not carry the soteriological and eschatological overtones which “seal” had […]
[…] of historians located in the Church Office Building under the direction of Leonard J. Arrington. It was a golden decade —a brief period of excitement and optimism—that someone has likened to Camelot. But it […]
[…] accusation of provincialism was as much to be feared as a comment on China from Ronald Reagan or almost any co ment by Interior Secretary Watts. English departments were just discovering that the creations […]
[…] Chicago in 1863. Since I live in St. Louis County, I have for years, off and on —mainly off—addressed myself to the task of finding out more about the mummies/ papyri during their Saint […]
Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have […]
A new Mormon poetry is beginning to emerge from the shadow of traditional, more bardic Mormon verse. Peeping about in the bright sun, blinking a bit and rubbing its eyes, it shows itself in poems […]
[…] establishing fly-by night medical diploma mills and taking degrees and certificates in all the rival medical camps —heroic, eclectic, and even Thomsonian. His inventiveness and opportunism are in keeping with his later ego preserving […]
[…] first one-page broadside, Does the Book of Mormon Teach Racial Prejudice?, to their massive study, Mormonism –— Shadow or Reality?, with more than 600 closely argued pages. Reprints of Mormon historical and religious writings, important […]
[…] wars were simply irrelevant to the Mormons. The Saints, after all, had just fought their own war —long, costly, and tragic—against the United States, a “just war,” as they believed. Plainly, he could hardly take […]