[…] by Him after Trouble with the Church; Has Left the City.” The sensational article began: No local news story published in recent years has caused so much comment as the exclusive story in yesterday’s […]
[…] trekking in the Andes with her fiancé Jorge, a returned missionary and graduate of Duke University in finance, but how had she come here? Why had no one tried to find her? Why no […]
[…] merely, but by using them to actually change things for the better. They are active principles for breaking up the world. The New Testament, like the Old, is a manual for revolution. The conventional […]
[…] children through insensitivity and even infidelity?” and called them “pathetic men or women.” The reference to “ breaking the tender hearts” of course echoes the language of Jacob’s strong denunciation of adulterous husbands in […]
Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was […]
[…] continued into 1818. The second oddity about the decades-long repetition of the minister-researcher’s denials involves Palmyra’s weekly newspaper. Its edition of 28 June 1820 referred to out-of-town visitor James Couser, who died on June […]
[…] Sensitive to public criticism about The Way to Perfection, the aging apostle denied in the LDS Church News and in Answers to Gospel Questions that he ever taught that Black people were an “inferior […]
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]
[…] deviants like Jesuits, Quakers, and Enthusiasts by labeling them vagabonds and disorderly persons, then penalizing them for breaking vagrancy law. Skeptical witchcraft legislation continued to be developed in the American colonies and then the […]
[…] and importance. Typical of his efforts is the following from an article appearing in the Deseret Evening News. . . . . But when the day comes that we shall have a gathering point […]