[…] of the Semi-Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of -Latter-day Saints, October 1960 (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, semiannual). See also Matthew Garrett, Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native […]
[…] the counsel of Eliza R. Snow and the vision of individual ward presidents. In the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward, Sarah Kimball was determined to prove that women could contribute economically to the community. […]
[…] American pageant in 1968, newer scholarship focuses on grass-roots organizing and on the personal stories of lea ders at various levels. Reading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I […]
[…] 150 years, in which the Relief Society had been diminished, censored, or reinterpreted by male Church lea ders. It had been diminished by conflicts over polygamy in 1843–44, then censored and disbanded by Brigham […]
[…] Perhaps the most daring word change is found in Alma 51:26 (RLDS Alma 23:32), in which the city of Nephihah becomes the city of Moroni. While one would prefer that such a major reinterpretation […]
[…] John Whitmer Kept by Commandment.” MS, p. 76. In The Archives, Department of History, The Auditorium, Independence, Missouri. Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, Ohio, to William Frye, Gilead, Illinois, letter dated December 22, 1835, published in […]
[…] has been known since its origin is confusing and needs clarification. When Dr. Backman deals with the Missouri and Illinois periods of L.D.S. history he loses much of the objectivity which characterized his analyses […]
[…] Mormons after they settled the American West. He did this by superimposing the constellation Ursa Major right-si de-up, slightly askew but to scale, on an 1860s map of the United States and its Territories. […]
[…] but I guess not. From the looks of the map, there were plenty of them here in Missouri, but spread out. I thought about how somewhere on this map there must be some Mormon […]
[…] an opening ahead and soon she walked into a vast cavern. It was as massive as a city. Unlike a city, however, there were no structures. As they entered, the people spread out and […]