[…] his family resided in Williams’ home in Kirtland. The two finally met in August 1831 in western Missouri where Williams covenanted that he would be willing to consecrate his all to the service of […]
[…] An Introduction to the Latter-day Saints Missionary System.” Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research 3 (January 1979): 22-27. Missouri Anderson, Lavina Fielding. “Like Gold Seven Times Purified: Early Saints in Mis- souri.” Ensign 9 (April […]
[…] complete extermination.” A number of the Twelve, meeting with members of an organization called the Salt Lake City Betterment Committee, agreed to implement an October 1907 General Conference resolution, to do all in their […]
[…] For a long time this “subdivision-of-Christianity” conception served as my basic explanatory framework for Mormonism. As Mario De Pillis demonstrated by employing the church model and using Roman Catholicism as analogue, and as Klaus […]
[…] as a clear negative in a society which generally shifted its emphasis from absolutism to tolerance. Gerard de Puymege summarizes this development: If fanatics abound and are often scorned in intolerant societies, the concept […]
[…] the westward migration during the California gold rush era and its impact on newly established Salt Lake City. Although most readers are aware that thousands stopped in Salt Lake on their way to the […]
[…] poetic borrowing at Nauvoo, however, differed from Phelps’s in at least one respect: the end of the Missouri oppressions and the beginning of Illinois prosperity brought a rapprochement with secular culture. The Mississippi left […]
[…] The storm was of such ferocity that thunder shook the ground and lightning started fires in the city of Zarahemla. The city of Moroni sank into the depths of the sea, and the earth […]
[…] using stylometry. Stylometry, described as a “scientific recognition system for written or spoken utterances,” began with Augustus De Morgan, the English mathematician and logician, in 1851. After delineating how it works, Taves then in […]
[…] Smith, Jr., gave Joseph Smith III that is now in possession of the RLDS Church in Independence, Missouri, and that it explains why the blessing was in Bullock’s possession so many years after it […]