[…] exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of Church attitudes towards blacks. The Gospel was for “all […]
[…] of what was produced by the Church’s welfare program, Kaye alleged, was being sold on the open market, while the Church at the same time continued to request exemptions from property taxes in California […]
[…] J. Willard Marriott, owner of the national hotel chain, who responded by sending her fifty shares of stock in the Marriott Corporation. She informed Rees: “This will amount to about $2,500.” Also, Mormon philanthropist […]
Mormon history contains its fair share of ironies and unintended consequences. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began with a mission to restore the ancient church, but not for everyone at the […]
[…] these enterprises had established permanence—occasional clashes with conservative LDS church leaders still gave supporters reason to take stock now and then. It was this roller coaster journey that best defines Dialogue’s Utah sojourn. V. […]
[…] Wood, Joseph Smith Begins His Work: The Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1963), 397. Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, American Mennonites and Protestant Movements (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987). See […]
[…] that “just because someone is in a leadership position . . . he can talk about a stock proposal” (“Church Leader” 1982, 10). Finally, I would identify certain extreme forms of social conservatism among […]
[…] the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in membership, temples and missionaries.
[…] provided love and support but also emerged in the national media as the public face of an idealized mid-twentieth-century American family—white, privileged, patriotic, with mother as homemaker, father as breadwinner, surrounded by attractive, well-mannered offspring.
[…] is basic to social organization. All organizations intending to grow or continue to exist require widespread acceptance and some degree of congruence with the surrounding culture. In the months following the raid on the […]