[…] 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 […]
Do you think that a fellow could grasp more of the wickedness of if he had an education? Buckshot Morgan (In Ginger 1958, 109) The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years […]
[…] that knowledge is from God” (JD 12:257-58). He would have loved to have studied science in depth: “How gladly would we understand every principle pertaining to science and art, and become thoroughly acquainted with […]
[…] the Father, who was also considered to be the God of the Old Testament (Kirkland 1984, 37). 3. Between 1838 and 1844, Joseph Smith introduced the concept of an infinite lineal hierarchy of Gods. […]
[…] 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 they are trying to “find themselves” in a new […]
[…] it cannot be improved as well as not.” Some few years after I first arrived in Utah —sometime after the last handcart and before the first Winnebago—a young sociologist came to join the university […]
The Restoration movements have tended to elevate historical claims to the level of theological dogma. But in our defense of historical beliefs we have often denied the reality of historical process by asserting that ideas,…
Science is full of strange twists and unexpected developments —so many, in fact, that we are rarely surprised anymore by its most recent revelations. But one of the biggest scientific surprises of the twentieth […]
[…] free cultural exchange and trading throughout much of their history (Alma 22; 23:15-17; 47:35-38; 55:4; Hel. 6:7-8; 4 Ne. 20; Moro. 2:8; 6:15). Lamanites became Nephites and Nephite dissenters became Lamanites (Words of Mormon […]