[…] of the book, it is only known in its complete form today in Ethiopic manuscripts. It is designated 1 Enoch to distinguish it from 2 Enoch, an ancient Jewish text preserved in old Slavonic, and […]
[…] had its echo in the rhetoric which justified the Federal invasion of Utah in 1857, and in Missouri Governor Boggs’ issuance of the infamous “Extermination Order” of 1838 which precipitated the Haun’s Mill massacre […]
[…] Smith’s futuristic plans never fully materialized. As the Church began to expand in Ohio and Jackson County, Missouri, converts imported a diversity of lifestyles to the Mormon strongholds. Not only had a majority of […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 62–83
De Schweintiz documents how students at BYU still hear racist reasons for the priesthood/temple ban in classes, missions, Gospel Doctrine, sacrament meeting talks and even in books published by […]
[…] actions and to build bridges and respond positively to black aspirations will bring special kinds of misun derstanding and pain and will sometimes make the cross harder to bear. Eugene England I think you […]
[…] Widtsoe, Priesthood and Church Government in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1939; reprint, 1966), pp. 83-85, 87-89. Most of these paragraphs are Widtsoe’s own or those […]
[…] the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, religious resurgence has served as “an expression of cultural authenti city.” Certainly in the United States we can’t deny that, like it or not, religious belief is […]
[…] Saints or those closely associated with the Church and its members. Deseret News, Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013). Bruce A. Chadwick and H. Dean Garrett, “Women’s Religiosity and Employment: The LDS […]
[…] have been a faithful response to the founding vision of non-violent Zion, notwithstanding their earlier violence in Missouri, Illinois, and Utah. David Pulsipher explains in an essay how criticism and suspicion of the war […]
Discussing religion in America, de Tocqueville once remarked that “religions ought . . . to confine themselves within their own precincts; for in seeking to extend their power beyond religious matters, they incur a […]