[…] “a cunning enemy,” along with Darwin, for the multi-traditionary view seemed to them to challenge the histori city of the Old Testament as much as they thought “evolution” did. Scholarly skepticism about the classical […]
[…] Need for and Ability to Support a Program of Cooperative Vocational Business Education in the Salt Lake City High Schools,” finds that “nearly 45 percent, or about 67,000 workers, in Metropolitan Salt Lake area […]
[…] west of the Mississippi, and b) the University of Iowa was founded in 1847. (The University of Missouri, I learned then, was founded in 1839.) O’Dea received my letter cordially enough, and we later […]
In the mid-1920s B. H. Roberts, General Authority and Presi dent of the Eastern States Mission, began preliminary work on a book-length manuscript. By this time Roberts had already written extensively on church history […]
[…] is made abundantly clear that “as well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri River in its decreed course, or to turn it upstream, as to hinder the Almighty from […]
[…] conference address on April 8, 1962: “As Latter-day Saints we have always believed that the Polynesians are descendants of Lehi and blood relatives of the American Indians, despite the contrary theories of other men.” […]
Despite its high visibility in every day Mormon life, the Word of Wisdom has received remarkably little attention in scholarly journals. Indeed, the last—and only—notable published work to date on the subject came […]
[…] the church itself should be. During the last two decades, World Conferences have been held in Independence, Missouri, every two years for one week, a time span which traditionally includes April 6. A number […]
[…] mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” From the streets of Manhattan, through city after city, to the fields of Iowa, people all across America throw open their windows and […]
[…] The Folk-Lorist, a publication of the old Chicago Folk-Lore Society, the Reverend David Utter, from Salt Lake City, published a short piece entitled “Mormon Superstition.” He recounted Mormon beliefs about Indians, summarized briefly the […]