[…] next year, fellow former Latter-day Saint Roger Billings assumed leadership of the church, which he incorporated in Missouri in 1989. Wayback Machine captures of churchofjesuschrist.org in late 1999 suggest that the organization was using […]
[…] in from all over Utah, New England, California, and Texas, and took home spin-off events. Salt Lake City’s “Pilgrimage” and New England’s “Exponent II Retreat” are two of them that are continuing to this […]
[…] and blessings.” Quoted in Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994), 295–96, 307. The letter is somewhat suspect, because of its provenance. Joseph dictated […]
[…] her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes in Provo, Utah. Those two sister cities […]
[…] some of his evenings there reading, having soon been befriended by the professor, an eminent theologian named de Freitas, whose library Colyer had been quietly rifling. This was all in the early 1850s. It […]
[…] Townsend, and the editor and anonymous readers for Dialogue. Dan Vogel, ed., Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996), 1:542. Hereafter EMD. Joseph Smith Sr. may well have started the tradition. According […]
[…] “The Order of Enoch,” 42nd semi-annual conference, 9 October 1872. Journal of Discourses, XV, 222, 224. “The Missouri and Illinois Mormons in Ante-Bellum Fiction,” Dialogue, 5 (Spring 1970), 47, 48. Two other recent studies […]
[…] an opening ahead and soon she walked into a vast cavern. It was as massive as a city. Unlike a city, however, there were no structures. As they entered, the people spread out and […]
[…] Laws in America, 1861–2003 (New York: Viking, 2008). Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969), 40. See also, Spencer W. Kimball, “President Kimball Speaks Out on Morality,” Ensign, Nov. […]
[…] creating an invisible boundary or veil of fear. I felt we needed to confront that fear and de-stigmatize Mormon feminism as a collective. Jan Tyler told me that Women and Authority vindicated Sonia, yet […]