[…] because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though […]
[…] national attention—the Malthusian thesis that the rate of population growth would eventually exceed the earth’s “sustaining capa city.” Even the Mormon Evening & Morning Star joined in by reprinting a “table of population” correlating […]
[…] DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints cultivate commitment to the vera city of the Book of Mormon in many different ways. Some techniques are obvious: private scriptural study, […]
[…] “at Bridger’s Fort.” Now, late in June 1858 he had “the doubtful satisfaction of marching through the deserted city of Great Salt Lake.” Brigham Young, he later recalled, “to give an appearance of reality […]
[…] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, learned journals were silent. But he himself, with pardonable pri de, had described his work as “monumental.” One Mormon, answering Bernard De Voto’s contemptuous description of Utah […]
During the past few decades, a number of LDS scholars have developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere […]
[…] Recent Survey Data on Urban Mormons The following data on secularization have been collected from Salt Lake City and from a Pacific coastal city. Their chief interest lies in the comparison between Salt Lake […]
[…] Angeles), WCLR- and KSEA-FM, Skokie (near Chicago), as well as KMBZ-AM and KMBR-FM, both in Kansas City, Missouri. Through its subsidiary, Radio New York, Worldwide, Incorporated, Bonneville holds the license for WRFM-FM, New York […]
[…] from its first organization to this date, 1839.” As for the secular status of black slaves in Missouri and the slaveholding South—regions of increased Mormon activity during the 1830s—the Church in 1835 officially adopted […]
[…] requisitions of the new covenant. But the tribe of Judah will re- turn to old Jerusalem. The city of Zion spoken of by David, in the one hundred and second Psalm, will be built […]