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 […]
[…] Mormons are scattered elsewhere throughout Asia’s vast land masses—India, Iran, Lebanon. The message is being carried to black Africa, expanding be yond the white strongholds. Communist-controlled territories are being observed carefully for mission penetration. […]
[…] and finally it was flapping in the wind behind his bald head that was smeared with this black goop. What a killer. But, in the spring, John quit school and got the job driving […]
[…] his first wife, Sarah, and his eldest child, Orson, Jr. Sarah’s disaffection had been an ongoing process dating from the early 1840s. For the strong willed Sister Pratt polygamy was unacceptable regardless its adovcates. […]
[…] was dead. I didn’t go to the funeral, but I watched the procession to the graveyard, the black hearse leading the way, the family following in the second car. When the last car had […]
[…] on the subject, but the absence of dogma tic hostility left the door open to the scientific community. After World War II evolutionary theory became well entrenched in Mormon academic circles. Twenty years after […]
Joseph Fielding Smith, Apostle and Church Historian, once published an answer to an inquiry about when the Word of Wisdom became a commandment. His response, widely accepted as definitive both then and subsequently, was included…
[…] been used, as well as dozens of other concoctions. Tobacco smoke was thought to protect against the black death in the seventeenth century, and some still recommended cigars to ward off cholera in the […]