[…] readers are surely more at ease with scandal. I would like to keep the exercise simple, but for the sake of honesty—and what is confession without honesty?—I’m going to undermine my confession by admitting […]
[…] Johnson presided over one of the oldest and largest fundamentalist Mormon groups, organizers of the United Ef fort Trust in Colorado City, Arizona, formerly known as Short Creek. Accepted as a prophet by his […]
[…] archaeology is largely useless — even a delusion — and that there are far more important things for Church anthropologists to worry about is not currently popular in the Church. Nevertheless, the conservative position […]
[…] our protagonist, a crabby aging mother and professor, drives from Salt Lake City to her father’s birthplace—Saf ford, Arizona—to visit an infant’s gravesite. Year: 2016. Grandma Anderson said one of the best things about […]
And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose have I made these things. . . . And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own […]
[…] such development across the 150-year span of Mormon history would fill a small volume. My purpose, there fore, will be limited to a con sideration and comparison of Mormon millennial thought now current with […]
[…] to the House and Reed Smoot to the Senate, articles began to speak well of the Mormons for the first time. During the past fifty years, the publicized Mormon values of integrity, devotion to […]
[…] or devastated. The ground surface suffered a general breakup: open fissures developed, and new hills and valleys formed (3 Ne. 5:8). These events took place in three hours and were followed by a foreboding […]
[…] employee of Johann Sutter, constructing a saw mill on the American River northeast of Sacra mento, Cali fornia. On 24 January, Bigler noted in his journal that “some kind of mettle was found looks […]
The distinction of being the firstborn of Apostle Orson Pratt’s forty five children belonged to his namesake, Orson Pratt, Jr. Unlike Joseph Smith III, Brigham Young, Jr., Joseph F. Smith, Heber J. Grant, John […]