Art, Religion and the Market Place
May 4, 2018[…] tithing that returns many fold in the hour of need, the talk of tithing as our best buy in insurance, or the distasteful joke about it as personal fire insurance; that we hear the […]
[…] tithing that returns many fold in the hour of need, the talk of tithing as our best buy in insurance, or the distasteful joke about it as personal fire insurance; that we hear the […]
<i>Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40</i><br>In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] a week?” I persisted. “Oh, now I’m alone, I can do on two dollars.” “What can you buy for two dollars!” I was trying to divide our food bill by six. “I buy potatoes […]
[…] be answered by losing a half day’s work in attendance at court, and who is unable to buy a home in a desirable white suburb (even though he has the money) because he cannot […]
[…] records also show clearly that they had no revival in 1820, for the Palmyra congregation gained only 6 by baptism, while the neigh boring Baptist churches of Lyons, Canandaigua, and Farmington showed net losses […]
[…] Utah and China. When I realized that “Southern Far East Mission” didn’t mean Florida, I had to buy a map to locate Taiwan, my own mission field. I was dutifully packed off to the […]
So you want to write a Mormon novel? Great! Here’s a story for you:— It’s about a Mormon bishop and his family, see, so you can get in all the little inside details about […]
[…] promises of God in modern revelation reasoned that if in 1833 God had told the Church to buy land in Jackson County, then that commandment was still valid in 1870 (all real or supposed […]
[…] been greatly enriched in recent years by studies which have made use of literary sources. Few works, for example, surpass the challenging insights and interpretations of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land (1950), William R. […]
[…] Latter-day Saints commenced eight years after the founding of the Church in Fayette, New York on April 6, 1830, by Joseph Smith. From New York the Church spread westward into northern Ohio and western […]