[…] in priesthood meeting: “Why,” demanded one elders’ quorum president, “don’t we have mission leaders who understand our politics?” Another told me of how hard pressed he was to explain the Church’s move to his […]
[…] The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), p. 416; see also Phyllis Stock, Better Than Rubies, A History of Women’s Education (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978), pp. […]
[…] the potential god hood of mankind), the relationship be tween secular and religious authority in economics and politics (his point of view is similar to that in his previously published Quest for Empire), Mormon […]
[…] go as planned. When the obligatory request for negative votes was made, four in the congregation, all American missionaries, indicated opposition. The branch president, surprised and unsure of how to proceed, had the young […]
[…] Lamanite allowed Mormon and Indian interests to be distinguished so that Mormons could practice a flexible “ politics of the Indian.” Mormons and Indians in a Gentile Polity Mormon relations with the Indians were […]
<i>Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57</i><br> Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over […]
[…] and to ignore the destruction, death, and human misery wrought by our actions. The nation cheered at videos of bombs destroying buildings, bridges, factories, and power stations. The bombing of a shelter, which killed […]
[…] logic goes, check their superstitions at the school house door. In the name of politeness and good politics, we pretend to come to the seminar table as tabula rasa and wear blank faces whenever […]
[…] the Budget, Fiscal Year 1998, House of Representatives,” Congressional Record, 20 May 1997. According to several CNN/ USA Today /Gallup polls. CNN/ USA Today /Gallup Poll, 9 Jan. 1998. This Week, ABC television, 11 […]
[…] year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a […]