[…] discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an attempt to restore […]
[…] Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith, 5th ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1919), 136. Alan K. Parrish, “Keys of the Priesthood,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by […]
[…] the Great Basin, the Saints had created a distinct religious society and economy. The frictions that made headlines were caused by a conflict of social orders and of cultures, not by a conflict over […]
[…] dozen libel suits. Another impression is of a lively journal fighting to stay alive in a competitive market by vigorously tackling a variety of controversial issues. By comparison, today’s Salt Lake Tribune — and […]
[…] he believed the prohibition movement would hurt the Church by bringing further charges of church influence in politics. John Henry Smith opposed Prohibition but considered Smoot’s objections somewhat hypocritical because the Apostle-Senator “had no […]
[…] is changing and it is changing in a major way. On 9 December 1987 an official Church news release described the belief in the superiority of one race or color over another as “abhorrent […]
[…] free but intensely materialistic world—ironically not the materialism that Marxism promised but failed to create—but the free market economy where materialism actually holds sway. Only then will we discover if the coming generations of […]
[…] to Litchfield in the middle of winter, take off his shoes, and walk through the town during market-day crying out, “Woe to the bloody city of Litchfield! Woe to the bloody city of Litchfield!” […]
<i>Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65</i><br>In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
[…] his own religious sensitivities. At first, he contained his resentment of Joseph’s monopoly of the real estate market in Nauvoo, though he came to regard the prophet’s preoccupation with temporal affairs as unfitting for […]