[…] School Prayer Problem Many people believe that more school prayer is desirable, and one obvious way to get it is to amend the Constitution. During its 1984 session the U.S. Senate considered a number […]
[…] their authors understood those events. Thus what they seem to be telling us is that these authors, writing between about a.d. 70 and 95, did not know any tradition of Jesus establishing a priesthood […]
[…] ideas. The others gradually dropped out, but Jensen remained committed to the project. She spent several months writing the series of lessons, only to realize after filming the first one that they all had […]
[…] better next time. Jerilyn Wake field, who teaches school in Tooele and who won one of our writing prizes for her essay about adopting her son as an unmarried woman, has been with us […]
[…] control of the Saints and keep them working together even after they reached California. He formed in writing an organization called “Samuel Brannan and Company” which would hold all the assets aboard the Brooklyn. […]
[…] ago from probability samples of Salt Lake City and San Francisco Mormons (Mauss 1972a) demonstrated that missionary service was a most important predictor of adult activity and commitment, second only to youthful home experiences. […]
[…] served as acting president for a full fifteen months. By then the entire period of my missionary service was just under four years. Somewhat typical of correspondence from President Grant is this extract of […]
[…] School of the Prophets on 9 December 1872 in the Salt Lake Stake: Joseph the Prophet in writing the Doctrine & Revelations Covenants, received the ideas from God, but clothed those ideas with such […]
[…] what Elder M. Russell Ballard called in April 1990, the “small and simple things” (Ballard 1990). Love, service, home, family, and worship of the Savior: these universals constituted the essence of Mormonism so far […]
[…] bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all” (3:10-11). Paul used the same language when writing to the Corinthians: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we […]