On April 23, 1983, a groundbreaking ceremony for the only temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built behind the Iron Curtain was held in the city of Freiberg, in the […]
[…] of scriptural injunctions and aperennial topic of Church leaders’ concern. Subtle changes inboth dress standards and rationales for modest dress in the latterhalf of the twentieth century reflect the LDS Church’s teachingsand attitudes toward […]
[…] “mysteries of the kingdom.” If mysteries were to be taught, Young advised, they should be discussed here, for this “is the place for you to teach great mysteries to your brethren, because here are […]
In mid-1971 Wesley P. Walters discovered Justice Albert Neely’s bill of costs for 1826 in the damp basement of the Chenango County Jail in Norwich, New York, confirming Joseph Smith’s involvement in treasure digging. […]
[…] see, much less meet a boy at M.I.A.” “Often we can’t get our parents to provide transportation for special M.I.A. events where we might meet fellows.” “Girls who don’t date in the Church date […]
[…] Deuteronomy. Only God and Moses write in the Pentateuch. God writes laws (Exod. 24:12), the architectural plans for the tabernacle (Ex. 31:18), names of the elect in a special book (Ex. 32:32), and the […]
[…] Book of Mormon have noted at least since H. Grant Vest that it is a historical problem for the book to quote from Isaiah chapters 40–66 because it is widely accepted in biblical scholarship […]
[…] the informal domain of “folklore.” Historian Stan Larson titled his history of Book of Mormon archaeology Quest for the Gold Plates, but the academics he studied never searched for gold plates. In fact, Brigham […]
[…] priesthood of God.” Robert Millet and his coauthors, in a thick volume some see as a replacement for McConkie’s now out-of-print and out-of-favor Mormon Doctrine, give a dual definition: “In a broad sense, a […]
[…] larger idea of authority. What is this thing that women are denied? What is this thing that, for over a century, faithful black LDS men were denied? Would clarifying or fine-tuning our definition—or even […]