[…] the Oneida community was disbanded. In 1837, when Mormon headquarters was located in Kirtland, Ohio, a Cleveland newspaper fifteen miles away printed a letter which argued for polygamy as a remedy for the “distress” […]
[…] in a letter to the doc tor that the Pratts were privately saying, “If Smith ever re news the attack on them, they will come out against him, and stand it no longer” (Bennett […]
Memorial Service for Armand Mauss In Memori am: Armand Mauss by Patrick Mason The academic field of Mormon studies lost one of its greatest pioneers and champions when Armand Lind Mauss passed away. In […]
[…] American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked […]
[…] it is hard to tell just what they will do” (New York Times, 8 Nov. 1890, Deseret News, 7. Nov. 1890). Nevertheless, Miles concluded, “those who have seen the impersonator of the Messiah say […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and the divine willingness to be bound by covenant. This point has remained constant, even though emphases […]
Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42
Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60 Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
[…] the long-promised day come when every faithfu1 worthy man in the Church receive the priesthood.” Time and Newsweek stopped their presses to get the story into their weekend editions. It was carried as well […]
[…] evidence that Joseph Smith experienced a visitation from the Father and the Son in 1820, an enormous amount of energy has been expended by scoffers and Latter-day Saints to disprove or prove the First […]