[…] B. Colton said: “You spent four years between 1922-1927 as president of the Eastern States Mission. I am overwhelmed by the responsibility of directing the missionaries and making the mission productive. I’d like to […]
[…] Book Company, 1979. Knight, Hal, and Stanley B. Kimball. Ill Days to Zion. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1978. Lecompte, Janet. Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: The Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, […]
[…] (Winter 1979): 46–61</i><br> Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and the federal […]
[…] legends dealing with the Three Nephites, one of the most prolific genres of religious folklore in America today. Collection did not begin until 1938; but thanks to the work of the Fifes, Hector Lee, […]
[…] kill the Pope again, one year later, this time with a bayonet. Poland is not in the news, and people don’t think much now about helping. During January and February I woke very early […]
[…] step in nuclear strategy, and no one blinks an eye. The line between politics and theater, TV news and soap opera, was crossed long ago. I would submit that the mythologies of nuclear war […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] individuals who become gods in Mormon heaven will certainly be using their intellects as they create worlds and keep them running, and they will undoubtedly be learning continuously. Mormonism never suggested there would be […]
[…] RLDS temple in Independence, Missouri—the place Joseph Smith, Jr., designated as the “Center Place of Zion.” I am not surprised that Latter-day Saints have a tough time understanding what we “Reorganites” are doing with […]
This dialogue of anguished questioning and consolation has an intensely personal meaning to me. The 1980s were a decade that severely tested my faith in Heavenly Father and my commitment to the Church. Whatever […]