[…] Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo ritual system. On the other hand, this meant defining themselves against the Brighamites by breaking their silence on plural marriage. In addition to their own internal anxieties over plural marriage, which […]
[…] there would be no inequality in wealth or standard of living and hence no reason to “ share.” What the moochers have in mind is not sharing at all. What they really mean is […]
[…] in or committed to the Church. I concur with statements attributed to George Romney (New York Times News Service) that Udall knows that this is not the way to bring about the change that […]
[…] to hear that the mystery in his possession can be revealed through God’s prepared intervention in the world, and he derides the inferior knowledge of men, which is limited precisely because “they will not […]
[…] plates in a room at the Smith home, four at one time and four at another (Deseret News, Aug. 14, 1878). This report is uncorroborated, however; nor was it approved by Whitmer before his […]
[…] I was entering the building, another teacher passed me and said, somewhat excitedly, “Have you heard the news? Blacks can have the priesthood.” Something in the way he said it made me think he […]
[…] for teaching doctrine and principle “by study, and also by faith.” The next year, Joseph was studying English grammar, avidly and ably, and was teaching it at the School. Early in 1835, he superimposed […]
[…] proselyting an ethic all their own. Similarly, critics believe the press can deliver more thorough and believable news that show the positive dynamism of human affairs. Some virulent criticisms are overstated, yet no church […]
[…] vote, only inviting members to participate. Ironically, that evening an editorial appeared in the church owned Deseret News entitled “Utah Women Should Match Power with Responsibility.” The editorial noted that “unhappily” many of the […]
[…] Martha, who had been “afraid to die. Not afraid of the afterward . . . but of breaking off. In all breaking away there is agony, and Martha had loved to live” (p. 21). […]