Sources of Mormon Americana in Utah
May 1, 2018[…] study, but is rather a brief survey of the collections of Mormon Americana in the Salt Lake City area, all of which I have visited with the exception of the Church Historian’s Office. The […]
[…] study, but is rather a brief survey of the collections of Mormon Americana in the Salt Lake City area, all of which I have visited with the exception of the Church Historian’s Office. The […]
[…] began working on nearby ranches in the hope of financing a high school education in Salt Lake City. At seventeen I spent several weeks alone on a large Wyoming ranch, riding ten to fifteen […]
[…] it, the heart. The pietists maintained that the convictions which one thus feels are the best gui de to ultimate religious truth. Pietists, Mead argued, cared much more for the heart than the head. […]
[…] would like you to tell me about your early background. As you doubtless know, my parents were devout Mormons and I was brought up in a small Mormon town of very great beauty in […]
[…] warns again that the Lane story was told by Cowdery, not Joseph. Bushman says that Cowdery was in Missouri when he started his 1834 history, and after moving to Ohio, lived in Norton, too far […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to reach all the Seventies and for the President to teach their members in a quorum capa city, or that they can be brought together as quorums.” When the decade of the 1880s opened, […]
The conflict between the God of religious worship and the god of philosophical inquiry has plagued Ju deo-Christian theology since the union of Greek philosophy with Hebrew religion in the first centuries of the […]
[…] sealed to Joseph for eternity the previous spring. But by November marauders on the outskirts of the city had begun looting, burning, and whipping. Emma and Joseph’s relationship again showed signs of intense stress […]
[…] from the 1820s to 1879. During this period the social and political institutions that would stamp the developing nation with a distinctively American character became either codified by law, accepted by custom, or imposed […]