[…] ship. (See Jerry Marsengill, Introduction, The Official Minutes of Nauvoo Lodge U.D., , edited by Hogan ( Des Moines: Research Lodge No. 2, 1974). G. Homer Durham, then Man aging Director of the LDS Church’s […]
[…] They had buried more than one-fifth of their number along the banks of the Mississippi and the Missouri after a savage bout with cholera. Heavy snows had delayed them, killing many of their animals. […]
[…] wasn’t written primarily for a Mormon audience. And it wasn’t expected to sell well in Salt Lake City. But Bob Gottlieb and Peter Wiley, both outsiders to the LDS Church and to Utah, have […]
[…] fog. Every view in early morning is spectacularly glorious. For fifteen cents we can travel on our city bus line for miles and miles around our lovely city. Imagine being able to ride in […]
Mormonism has, in my view, a serious theological problem with its un derstanding of scripture. The problem lies in the tendency to read the scriptures uncritically, and it exists in both the LDS and […]
[…] translate, perhaps misleadingly, as “church,” is ecclesia. Its Greek origin is significant. When an official entered a city to make a decree, those who gathered to hear the proclamation were called the ecclesia — […]
[…] for single adults. The Oakland First Ward draws from both the affluent Piedmont area and from inner- city Oakland. The two Alameda wards have a large population of transient Navy personnel. Berkeley Ward serves […]
[…] Brigham Young papers). Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner (n.d.), was an early and fervent member in Kirtland and Missouri. She and her husband, Adam Lightner, gathered with the Saints at Nauvoo and eventually Utah. Joseph […]
[…] Were any scheduled at Notre-Dame, the large cathedral-like church I had seen while walking through the Old City by the St. Lawrence River the night before? The concierge was uncertain but thought there would […]
[…] summarizes the various views of tongues today, clarifies the origin of tongues within the restored Church, and details its rise and fall in the LDS and RLDS faiths. There are two general categories of […]