[…] 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87</i><br>Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
[…] Hukilau Beach and didn’t invite Liz. I didn’t even tell her about it until it was old news, until my beautiful, azureeyed husband was terminal. Liz never met him. The week of his funeral, […]
[…] something bad happening to me. Jack was looking like the rattled folk you see on the TV news. Had those eyes. He stood by the Nova and said, “It has me spooked is all […]
[…] ‘I am sent forth to you by Allah to confirm the Torah already revealed and to give news of an apostle that will come after me whose name is Ahmed” (61:6). Among more recent […]
[…] including their moral authority, by being The Authority. The 1661 Declaration (written to Charles II by George Fox and other Quakers) said the Spirit of Christ is not changeable, and that seems to be […]
[…] my life. So this is what I tell myself. Kyle and I, our story, it’s like this news report I remember from last winter about a skier who got lost in the mountains. For […]
[…] as a Catholic, I realized through my own experience that this ancient spiritual gift is still bestowed. And now, as a Mormon, I can easily identify with pioneer accounts of its appearance among Saints […]
In April 1993, President Bill Clinton, Elie Wiesel, international dignitaries, and Holocaust survivors celebrated the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Initiated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the monument is one […]