[…] massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on a cold December day in 1890. Some blamed the Mormons for the “Messiah Craze,” accusing their missionaries of posing as the Messiah and claiming that the Ghost […]
[…] Mormons. Most creationists agree on a number of specific beliefs. They insist on a very young age for the earth (generally less than ten thousand years), formation of the fossil record in a single, world-wide […]
[…] of multiple world systems. By the eighteenth century, Protestant evangelicals absorbed the idea into their Natural Theology. For them nature contained clear and compelling evidence of God’s existence, substantiating their own Christian beliefs and […]
[…] guilty of this offense in 1969 and received from the Mormon History Association its “Worst Book” award for his volume on Brigham Young. Ernest H. Taves, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist with both Mormon and Mennonite […]
[…] my brothers now live in Utah so I have had access to sixteen substitute children to “use” for Christmas, summers off, and other “occasions.” I always thought I would naturally fall into the average, […]
[…] causes. As a result, some scholars have claimed that there is no longer any basis in science for saying that one way of doing things is more rational than another. Some of the questions […]
[…] scene and setting, often laconic and wry: “Pa was a messy washer. He needed a bigger dish, for one thing. He’d sozzle and slosh around—hands to elbow, and head all over, often wiping long […]
[…] directs Salt Lake City’s Anthropological Research Center, and Anson Shupe, a Methodist associate director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Texas-Arlington, view themselves as academics approaching their task — an […]
[…] of the First Presidency under his direction in December 1847 have provided the basic pattern and precedent for apostolic succession. This important event has been discussed in depth by a number of historians (Quinn […]
[…] recalled that its miraculous beginnings had filled a need at a time when I was still homesick for the Institute of Religion, the U of U, and BYU, where I was teaching before marriage. […]