[…] supports Cady’s argument in the main. Perhaps no single writer of the antebellum era employed a “homelier” writing style than Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon, his first literary production, is saturated with biblical […]
[…] that same area of the city of Donetsk, my companion and I stum bled into an unusual service project involving local day care centers. A teacher at one of the centers had met LDS […]
[…] am going to serve the Lord. I am going to prepare every way I can for future service, because I want to be prepared when the final battle shall come.” And some of you […]
[…] the original record from which they were taken. He may have given Harris his guarded opinion in writing. Harris then told him some of the strange facts associated with the BM’s origin and translation […]
[…] their element? Men at risk? Wiry young boys working for a tree removal company? In Darrell Spencer’s writing, one can never tell. “Caution: Men in Trees,” the title story in the collection, is narrated […]
[…] model since it was the oldest ceremony; there Brigham Young had committed most of the ritual to writing, trying to make the ceremony conform to the content introduced by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo. Since […]
[…] law. If punishment itself is not good, not a part of right relationship and hence unjust, then writing it into the law makes the law unjust. This injustice is not remedied by writing excuses […]
[…] sustains our craft. Intellectuals want to make sure that people keep arguing and keep reading and keep writing. And that isn’t necessarily the best or at least only good way to live. Anyone who’s […]
[…] and other materials. For a period, Page endorsed Brewster with something like his former ardor for Strang, writing in his behalf and lamenting that poverty kept him from a more active missionary work. A […]
Writing in the mid-1990s, Mormon-watcher Massimo Introvigne made a counterintuitive observation about debates over Book of Mormon historicity among Mormon intellectuals, as compared to analogous debates between Protestant fundamentalists and liberals. Fundamentalists, despite […]