A Proselytor’s Dream
April 21, 2018Mary Mahoney, a devout Catholic, left Kentucky and came west to Basalt, Idaho, where she met her future husband on the steps of the old LDS ward house. She was a Mormon for the […]
Mary Mahoney, a devout Catholic, left Kentucky and came west to Basalt, Idaho, where she met her future husband on the steps of the old LDS ward house. She was a Mormon for the […]
[…] biographies, she said that in her work on Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History, she was not involved with it “except by inadvertence.” It was the Joseph Smith volume, of course, her first […]
[…] one hundred years old. Last summer we celebrated what would have been his one hundredth birthday, had he lived. He was born in 1875 in Huntsville, Utah. The children, grandchildren, and great-children gathered for […]
The success of Mormonism’s “Word of Wisdom,” especially its prohibition of tobacco —in promoting Mormon health is now widely acknowledged. Mor mons have shown that they experience what medical science would predict from their […]
[…] 130 years denied the priesthood to those having any black African ancestry. Now, just three years later —in a day when Eldredge Cleaver is talking about joining the Church—it is easy to forget the […]
One of the strongest virtues of this volume is the modesty of its project. It does not claim to be the story of Mormon pioneering in Mexico, but simply a story of the same. […]
[…] “non-traditional writings of women.” The institute was held at the University of Alabama, directed by Leonore Hoffmann, and taught by three fulltime faculty plus many one- or two-day lecturers, including Florence Howe of the Feminist […]
[…] a sacrament between mother and daughter, it had been made by Sarah’s great grandmother and her friends —all of them from Manchester. On long winter evenings they sat together and pieced patches of materials […]
On a snowy evening, Gerard de Valois stepped from a tram near Quai Marcellis in the Belgian city of Liege. He positioned his hat more firmly, tucked his scarf tightly into the collar of […]
[…] a hymn written especially for the first number of the Star, a hymn of power and confidence —Zion on the offensive! The morning breaks; the shadows flee; Lo! Zion’s standard is unfurled. The dawning […]