Approximately 250 miles southwest of Chicago and 150 miles north of St. Louis lies Nauvoo, Illinois. At this place the Mississippi River rather abruptly pushes itself into Iowa and then returns again to its generally…
[…] Work on the Geography of Mexico and Central America from 2234 B.C. to 421 A. D. (Independence, Mo.: L. E. Hills, 1917). Hills claimed, “Indian traditions and legends, handed down for about 2,000 years, […]
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[…] Scattering of the Saints: Schism Within Mormonism, edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and John C. Hamer (Independence, Mo.: John Whitmer Books, 2007), 258–89. National Research Council (US), Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System […]
[…] other almanacs, the one published near the Smith home simply gave astrological symbols showing that for “1820—3d Mo. MARCH,” the sun enters Taurus on 20 March, and for “1820—6th Mo. JUNE,” the sun enters […]
[…] and places all Book of Mormon events within Mesoamerica, essentially agreeing with Sorenson and others, except “for Mo roni’s trip to the Palmyra, New York, area.” Allen’s placement of some specific locations, “assuming that […]
Ever since the dark hours of September 11, I have been disquieted about what is now called “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation and its people, I have also felt uneasy about the quick polarizing rhetoric, the boasting of our power, the clamoring calls for revenge, and the military force we have unleashed upon other countries. I have wondered if there weren’t a better alternative than to launch an all-out assault on a country (Afghanistan) that had already been devastated by recent wars (and which had suffered a million casualties in the decade of the nineties), to wage a preemptive war against another nation (Iraq) on the supposition that it was tied to the September 11 attacks, and to undertake the seemingly impossible eradication of terror from the face of the earth, if not from the hearts of its inhabitants.
This slim volume is intended by its publisher to inaugurate a series of monographs devoted to the study of the infamous 1857 massacre of over 100 emigrants by misguided Mormons and their Indian allies in southern Utah. The massacre was initially treated…
Recently, my wife and I became foster parents to two teenagers of Haitian ancestry, a fourteen-year-old girl and an eighteen-year-old boy. It is our first-time parenting experience, and “interesting” is not an adjective that does…
Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2012): 104–123
First, the history of the temple project will be shown from the Dutch perspective, with a discussion of some of the observable effects on the Dutch saints, one of them being a large drop in temple attendance.