[…] professor, expressed her anger and frustration about the ignorance and lack of sensitivity among Church members. “I am concerned,” she said, “that a ‘fine young priesthood holder’ can raise his hand and seriously say, […]
[…] It was also a time of celebration for GDR citizens. Church leaders in both the GDR and USA utilized the event to schedule conferences where General Authorities could more easily attend. For Gerd Skibbe […]
[…] the most moral man I know.” And at least Death came for him in the West. I am sad because I have been able to do so little as a Mormon and a western […]
[…] has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. […]
[…] his speech: “I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.” […]
[…] from Emperor Basil II of Constantinople. A renegade general had gathered an army to march on the Christian capital, and the emperor begged Prince Vladimir for an army to buttress the defense of his throne.
[…] “As I got further from town, out into the sagebrush and pifion pine, even with my heart breaking I felt a sense of freedom I’d never felt before, like a great heaviness falling away, […]
[…] made when the History of Joseph Smith, as it was originally called, was serialized in the Deseret News in the late 1850s. Not only does this history place polygamy and Brigham Young’s ecclesiastical significance […]
[…] pushed Elder Pratt to a public recantation in 1865. Then he published the recantation in the Deseret News, along with a denunciation of specific absolutistic doctrines of Elder Pratt, signed by the First Presidency. […]
[…] members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, and the doctrine underpinning them, united Smith’s beliefs in obedience […]