[…] 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 […]
[…] bellum ordering of law and religion was abandoned for the order we know and take for granted today, a world of limited local sovereignty and federally regulated religious conduct. In short, Gordon has used […]
[…] George Q. Cannon in 1884, he “still betrayed ‘a German twang.’” The Whitmers derived from Pennsylvania German stock. In fact, the first European-language translation of the Bible published in America (even before English) was […]
<i>Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108</i><br> A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully […]