[…] Talmage, The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909), 150 (referring to the Middle Ages as the “dark ages—characterized by stagnation in the progress […]
[…] for an archaic work that he or someone else surreptitiously translated from an ancient language into modern English.” It continues like this, mimicking the seriousness of Book of Mormon literary devices and ancient Israelite […]
[…] early phases of what is going to become known as the Book of Mormon Wars. Act III: Breaking Past Apologetics As I mentioned, apologetics is really heating up, with two major camps. One who […]
[…] Lehi’s descendants into refugees, forcibly displacing those they had not already killed from their ancestral lands, then breaking treaty after treaty whenever they coveted the latest place of Native American resettlement. Eventually the Native […]
Dialogue 54.1 (Spring 2021): 69–79
Five years after my excommunication, I met and entered into a relationship with the man who is my husband to this day. We became a couple in 1991; we held a public commitment ceremony in 1995, a time when same-sex marriage was legal nowhere in the United States; we purchased a home together in 1996; and we legally married in California in 2008. Regardless of how or why I was excommunicated in 1986, current Church policy is such that if I were a member, my bishop would have grounds for excommunicating me now, and I cannot currently be reinstated into membership.
[…] 5, 1968, with the following remarks: “At this time we express deep sorrow and shock at the news of the passing of a man, Martin Luther King, who dedicated his life to what he […]
[…] edition of The Evening and the Morning Star. Utah era newspapers include substantial files of the Deseret News, The Mountaineer and The Mormon, as well as complete files of the more common periodicals such […]
[…] even more undiscriminating hearts.” In the hard Icelandic life a man like Steinar is “overwhelmed with the news that Zion was to be found on earth, with vacancies available.” After a while, Steinar revealed […]
[…] Raft River Valley; the opportunity to leave came in the form of an invitation to teach Freshman English at Northwestern University. Between the years of childhood and the time when he found himself working […]
[…] admitted in the Reed Smoot case, but it is also true that by doing so, he was breaking both church and government law. Here is his own testimony. Mr. Tayler (prosecuting attorney). Is the […]