[…] priesthood was not a barrier, apparently, for nonblack women. The Church does have a very vague tradition, dating back to Joseph Smith, that women somehow (though not by ordination) receive the priesthood through the […]
[…] are mainly receiving this guidance in M.I.A. and Seminary. About 80% of the respondents over sixteen began dating before age sixteen and 81% of the unmarried (62% of the total sample) did not think […]
Shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah in July 1847 Brigham Young planned for an anticipated population explosion by exploring the region and locating sites which could support new settlements and industries. Parley P. […]
[…] 1 and continuing through land distribution in Joshua 18-19. Its style of writing is formulaic. Genealogies and dating organize the literature in Genesis. Covenants with Noah (Genesis 9) and Abra ham (Genesis 17) are […]
[…] them, “but if there were some way to obtain a subsidy,” he promised to arrange for scientific dating of the site. Cheesman showed the plates to various experts. Anthropologists Frederick Dockstader and Gordon Ekholm […]
[…] sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented to be ignored, his concepts of evolution1 by natural selection have been hotly debated now for well over a century.
[…] is due to a non-material force. Science, profiting from a long series of investigations on spontaneous generation dating primarily from Redi in the seventeenth century to Pasteur and Tyndall in the 1870s, became associated […]
[…] Jerson Best International Article Award $350 Awarded to the best international Mormon history article (in print or online journals). (Note: An author may submit one of his or her articles or essays from a […]
[…] feeling of the Brethren.” During the next several months Apostle Hugh B. Brown actively (and successfully) campaigned for the Democratic candidate in Utah’s U.S. senatorial race, and against Benson’s support of the incumbent Republican. […]
[…] me greatly and was the thing I liked best to do. It was incredibly intense at times, for it created great anticipation, satisfied my boy’s blood lust, made my life adventurous and primitive, and […]