[…] with the newly emerging Nauvoo Temple theology. But today let us view polygamy as an issue of human worth, peace and justice, and ministerial abuse.” Our Director of Peace and Justice Ministries in the […]
[…] get and translate, and write a book; that the plates were to be kept concealed from every human being for a certain time, some two or three years; that he went to the place […]
[…] American and French journals. With a background in architecture, I had had a fair exposure to graphic design and type styles. Wes was fascinated by calligraphy and knew typography well. Though the 1960s were […]
When Orson Pratt, apostle and LDS Church historian, revised the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 at the direction of Brigham Young, he included Section 85 among some twenty-five other new sections. Section 85 is a portion of a letter written by the Prophet Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio, on November 27, 1832. Presumably dictated by Joseph Smith to his scribe Frederick G. Williams, the letter was mailed to William Wine Phelps, a leading high priest and editor of the Missouri church’s newspaper the Evening and the Morning Star. It contained information concerning the efforts of Bishop Edward Partridge to implement the law of consecration amidst grumbling and disorder on the part of the Saints gathered there.
[…] has direct relevance to our search for meaning and happiness. In my understanding of Church history and human destiny, I believe that we gay Saints need the Church and the Church needs us. Great […]
[…] The first thing readers saw as they received each new issue of the journal was the cover design by Warren Archer. “We appreciate your diverse talents—the artistic eye and the irreverent nature,” wrote the […]
[…] contrast, the most sophisticated and prolonged debates within Mormonism on the relative claims of faith and unaided human reason have been cast as battles between “faithful history” and “secular history.” Where other traditions debate epistemology […]
[…] religions speak of heavenly messengers sent to earth. Some speak of divine books delivered supernaturally to select human agents. Some speak of living prophets loaded with di vine mandate. Some speak of holy objects […]
[…] with frantic birdsong. Her neighborhood, lined with imposing two-story homes and neat green lawns, is devoid of human noise: garages and windows closed tight, no little children riding tricycles on the sidewalks or playing […]
[…] the Old Testament—hospitality tied not just to personal honor, as Hobbs suggests, but also to understandings of human and divine communities. Hospitality in the Book of Mormon is not just a host increasing his […]