[…] followed Church leaders who vacated Ohio for Far West, Missouri. Barnes didn’t spend much time in the community-building efforts before he was again sent east to preach. He remained in missionary service until 1841, […]
Professor Stewart has given us a well-written biography of Joseph Smith. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, many of which draw their titles from key statements in Mormon literature that concern the events treated…
[…] divorced Latter-day Saint. It was from her that I learned how to “fit in” to a Mormon community where divorce was regarded by most as a major sin. I met my divorced colleagues at […]
[…] Grado (Italy), Salona (excavated in Yugoslavia), and Tabarka (Tunisia). Ravenna has two baptistries, one for the Orthodox community, the other for the Arians. The baptistry of St. Thecla had an important feature, which was […]
[…] particularly good: they are small scale and blurred around the margin. Further, although they pick up the black ink, they often fail completely on the red ink (the “rubrics”). The sections of Document B […]
[…] not uncommon, e.g., Carter, The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, I, pi. 17. The identification is assured by the black color of the body and many parallels, e.g., Mariette, Denderah, IV, pi. 70-71 and the countless examples […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 82–85
Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had their fundamental inspiration in migrations from the Near East.
[…] the use of group labels (e.g., Nephite, Lamanite). The relevant issue is the problem of dark skin—” black” and “white.” The terms “black” and “white” are used, Nibley argues, as marks of a general […]
[…] me to be my duty to my God . . . they are welcome to it” (Deseret News, 15 July 1885), seemed to believe very sincerely that the anti-polygamous law, in spite of the […]
[…] to the Need for Prophets,” The Improvement Era, 73 (Aug. 1970), 68-78. “Mormons and Blacks; Doctrine Forbidding Black Males from Becoming Priests,” Christianity Today, 14 (30 Jan. 1970), 22. “Mormons: Incensed at the Census,” […]