[…] church of Adam and Eve envisioned by Joseph and, as in the early Christian Church, women would share the burdens of administering the affairs of the kingdom together with ministering to their congregations, the […]
[…] Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1948), III, p. 167n; hereafter cited as DHC. Orson Hyde, who seconded Marsh’s allegations in 1838, […]
[…] the media to Short Creek just it had drawn the media to Utah in the previous century. News writers, photographers, and even one film maker flocked to the remote town in the autumn of […]
[…] 30, 1967 Leaders worthy of the name, whether they are university presidents or senators, corporation executives or newspaper editors, school superintendents or governors, contribute to the continuing definition and ‘articulation of the most cherished […]
[…] the word of. Although a small and common preposition, of has a knack for introducing ambiguity into English prose. As linguist Dallin D. Oaks has observed: “Many prepositions can in fact represent a variety […]
[…] am, as long as Mormons keep having babies and the rest of the country stops. “Census Sense,” Newsweek (January 25, 1971), 78. Troubled Mormons have been quick to note the growing number of “anti-explosionists” […]
[…] there was no putting them back. In a year when Relief Society lessons, conference talks and Church News editorials routinely condemned working women, we proudly published on the back cover of our pink Dialogue […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 138-61; Richard L. Jensen, “Mother Tongue: Use of Non- English Languages in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States, 1850-1983,” in […]
[…] of the Latter-day Saints shall read—and sometimes write—Mormon history. The generalization may be reversed—historians of Mormonism have shared an interest in and often a dedication to religious concerns (never did an author profess greater […]
[…] printing of those leaders’ diaries demonstrated that even the greatest Mormons had had their trials. Exchange of news between Utah and the missions showed how, in their several duties, the Saints throughout the world […]