[…] the Jewish Diaspora, the persecution of early Christians, the Holocaust, the extinction of the Nephites, and the Missouri period in Mormon history all point to some important lessons: In spite of Mormons’ “chosenness,” we […]
[…] Smith’s futuristic plans never fully materialized. As the Church began to expand in Ohio and Jackson County, Missouri, converts imported a diversity of lifestyles to the Mormon strongholds. Not only had a majority of […]
[…] other stake positions. Still, by the time I was twenty-eight, he was dead in his Salt Lake City home, just before his fifty-first birthday, of alcohol-related causes. I don’t remember what his bishop said […]
[…] the founder and the doctrines of the Ghost Dance religion had “become subjects of ignorant misrepresentation and de liberate falsification. Different writers have made him a Paiute, a half-blood, and a Mormon white man.” […]
As a school teacher in Tooele—junior high science/English—I carpool the forty miles from Salt Lake City every day. I had always assumed, as teens turned into twenties, that someday I would be married and […]
[…] a rural sociologist, and I were among the nearly three thousand participants in the Quinto Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (Fifth International Congress of Rural Sociology). It was my first trip to a Third […]
[…] I was among the forty or so people attending that meeting. I moved that we uphold the city officials in catching and punishing the youth and “that we favor an acceptance of the Japanese […]
[…] he said, “are to be considered the heads of the Church” (HC 2:509). Later, in Salt Lake City, John would recall, “In Kirtland, Ohio, four brothers sat in the Patriarchal seat in the Temple, […]
[…] promoted in the Church generally (Bergera and Priddis 1985); and a generalized hostility to “rock music” ( De Azevedo 1982). In part, such attitudes may derive from an exaggerated effort to “live down” the […]
[…] hostility of their fellow citizens, who drove the beleaguered Latter-day Saints from New York to Ohio to Missouri and, finally, to Illinois, where in 1844 Joseph Smith paid a martyr’s price for his vision […]