[…] the Church in the South in Cabell County, Virginia (now West Virginia). The Church continued to search for southern converts throughout the ante-bellum period, and while the traveling elders encountered little actual violence, they […]
Jack slowed down, looking for a sign. Seeing none, he sped on down the highway, grumbling to himself. Dean could have given more specific directions — or better, first-hand instructions, not this friend-of-a-friend nonsense. […]
[…] too little sustained analysis, too little comparison with intellectual currents outside of Mormondom, and too few recommendations for fruitful new directions for this study to stand as anything but the barest of introductions. The […]
[…] Taylor, Charles Ora Card looked over the southeastern portion of British Columbia in search of a haven for persecuted Utah polygamists but in the end selected a site across the Rocky Mountains in what […]
Praise to the mostly anonymous team from F.A.R.M.S. who produced this massive work. They deserve praise first for dedicating so much time and effort to careful research through manuscripts, computer indexes, and printed material. […]
[…] freshman year at DePauw, a small midwestern college. Students had come to DePauw, in Mead’s words, “ for fraternity life, for football games, and for establishing the kind of rapport with other people that […]
[…] different trajectories of thought across time takes us from a beginning point of mutual belief in baptism for the dead to the Reorganization’s complete rejection of it as. nonessential and even non-Christian or to […]
[…] overrun with Jazz fans and opera buffs (realizing too late that I had no change to pay for it—but the very kind attendant let me park for free), and ran the three blocks to […]
Let me start by saying that I did not pick the title for this panel —I am not yet convinced that I have survived the experience intact. How ever, after more than fifteen years […]
[…] one period this question so haunted him that he refused to keep a rope in the house for fear he might throw it over a rafter and hang himself. Yet by his late sixties, […]