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. […]
[…] An active church member shares his struggles of being in the church while being gay.“Solus,” S-O-L-US-, latin for alone, by an anonymous gay may in the Fall 1976 issue is the first entry on […]
Media attention is a two-edged sword with the potential for both positive and negative publicity. Still, many societal actors find it important to stay in people’s minds through media exposure. Religious movements, for example, […]
[…] even personal spirituality. The conflict has brought with it feelings of betrayal, mistrust, and deep personal pain for many. Many, even though they remain active and accept callings, are stigmatized and marginalized by successive […]
[…] glad in May of 1951, on the morning after my graduation, to load our pickup and head for Snowflake. I logged during the summer of 1951 for the Webb brothers on the Apache reservation […]
[…] scrubber. Even if they did, it is unlikely that they would guess that it was a container for abortion pills. Since graduate school, I have been friends with several women whose academic work focuses […]
[…] ongoing white supremacy and members’ belief in prophetic inerrancy and the abiding “rightness” of the LDS Church? For those of us who have no conscious memory of the LDS Church’s ban on priesthood ordination […]
Martin Harris is known for being a Book of Mormon scribe, witness, and financier. However, little is known about his activities while living in Kirtland, Ohio, for over thirty-five years. This article will present […]
[…] to migrations from Asia as “the primary source of American Indian origins.” Researchers associated with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) have rejected hemispheric models of the Book of Mormon but […]
[…] in this section have been published elsewhere and may seem redundant to students of this subject, but for the benefit of those who aren’t familiar with the literature, they require repeating. Moreover, to discern […]