[…] Sarah’s letter. Addressing Sarah as “My Dear Sister,” Martha expressed her delight at hearing from her, relayed news of their brothers, requested more information about their ancestors, and expressed her desire for their continued […]
[…] she must be seen as a real personage who acts as the Other to the male God, breaking out of monotheism or even dualism into a rich, wide spectrum of divine possibilities and characteristics. […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 2d ed. rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12, Vol. 7 published 1932; 1976 printing), 4:358-60. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d. ed. […]
[…] Creationism (N.Y.: W. H. Freeman, 2000), 93-94. Jeffrey L. Sheler and Joannie M. Schroff, “The Creation,” U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 23,1991, p. 59, available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/create.htm. James Glanz, “Evolutionists Battle New Theory […]
[…] westward expansion nurtured a profound belief in America as the land of destiny, a light to the world. God could not have chosen a better place, a better time, or a better people than […]
[…] “year and one half among them.” The practice of priesthood discrimination is also mentioned in a Deseret News article, “To the Saints,” April 3, 1852. Wilford Woodruff later reports that Brigham Young taught this […]
[…] inactive blacks in the Salt Lake area (Olsen 1980, 14; Cherry 1985b; Mauss 1981, 41). The Church News announced that the group would be an auxiliary program of the Liberty Stake. Meetings would be […]
[…] the spring of 1993 I attended my first Mormon feminist retreat, Pilgrimage, with several graduate students and English teachers—all women in our twenties or early thirties—who had met together once a week for nearly […]
[…] LDS.org websites and in conference speeches is usually either gender neutral or inclusive. For example, an LDS Newsroom Missionary Program infographic features a conspicuous alteration to the following quote from Elder Russell M. Nelson: […]
[…] worthy and who through no fault of their own had no opportunity to be baptized in this world.” He did not allow, however, for any requirement for baptism at any time, considering it an […]