Rarely is a report on an archaeological excavation so handsomely designed and mounted, but equally rare is a site whose history is as remarkable as that of the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois. Built in…
[…] of technology; and from the wide spread, haunting feeling that “mankind is at the helm of a black ship bound for hell.” The malaise is curable, though, and religion can prescribe the specifics of […]
[…] These two Mormon phrenologists made successful inroads of acceptance, if not conversion, to phrenology within the educational community. The early issues of The Character Builder contained phrenological descriptions of the general superintendent of LDS […]
[…] once, just to a close little group. He stood there, behind my chair, and I had a black pencil, and a time or two I’d write, “Fine,” you see, and then I’d put a […]
[…] and with his stump sticking out the window he raced the galloping shower into Mobile. With such black humor O’Connor makes concrete her concern for an unbelieving world, a concern that is made believable […]
What is there but hips and thighs To a black dwarf? And the rudimentary calls and crying Of sparrows swinging out
[…] often, in replacement. Albright noted that differences between J and E already existed in the Pentateuchal poems dating between Exodus and the Monarchy, thus the later “schools” had a prior basis. Such distinction could […]
Accounts of Emma Hale Smith and her relationship with her husband Joseph are scattered, sketchy and superficial. In 1973 Irwin E. Wirkus published Judge Me Dear Reader, a little twenty-five-page booklet about Emma. This past…
[…] Schweitzer in his epochal The Quest for the Historical Jesus, trans. W. Montgomery, (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911). Like Talmage, B.H. Roberts was hostile to the main trends of modern New Testament research […]
[…] of the Church 5:366 (19 April 1843). As Divett shows (this issue) there were a few herbal black sheep as well, such as Sampson Avard, who formed the secret Danite society, and Isaac Galland […]