[…] a notable change and maturing in the study of Mormonism. Increasing numbers of researchers are now looking for analytical syntheses that are both detached from religious truth claims and based on a wide range […]
[…] than anything else,” Benson wrote in 1962, “which added steel to my spine to fight it out for principle against the nearly overwhelming pressures of political expediency.” Second only to Flora was Reed, twenty-four […]
[…] first light. He had faithfully dispatched his morning duties: lugging the trash can out to the curb for Friday pick-up, unloading the dishwasher, walking Cleo to the end of the cul de sac and […]
[…] the U.S. Army and most historians surely do not. It seems to me that this shorthand label for the war trivializes, personalizes, and localizes it, much as the term “Seward’s Folly” was used to […]
[…] he followed this directive, he himself would never be killed by them. Thus, though Hamblin is known for his missions, explorations, and diplomacy in southern Utah and Arizona, Tooele was the place where he […]
Historically, modesty of dress has had important symbolic mean-ing for leaders and members of the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brigham Young, second president of the Church, often warned women against following the […]
Ross C. Anderson, A Call for Compassion John-Charles Duffy, Clarifying My Own Stance Cheryl L. Bruno, Asherah Alert Kevin L. Barney, Kevin Barney Responds William P. MacKinnon, Rest of the Story
[…] nice) families who were Catholic or some vague Protestant denomination. There was that one J-dub family; but for some reason, no one ever really thought about them. The family we were visiting that Sunday […]
[…] after she mentioned Lauren and Alan’s third trip to Paris in four years and the Hamiltons’ plans for their twentieth anniversary, a Caribbean cruise with their entire family, Boyd had held her plump palms […]
[…] move to the chapel ceiling. “Billions and billions of spirits waiting to inhabit mortal bodies, warriors saved for these last days, ready to battle the adversary in his strongest hour, and they need us, […]