[…] Nigeria and Ghana served as havens of refuge. Dr. Bruce Knudsen, with his family, was employed by World Health Organization in a mosquito-abatement research project with headquarters in Enugu, Nigeria. The Knudsen family had […]
[…] Brigham Young, and one of the strongest public advocates of polygamy, was quoted in the New York World, 19 November 1869, as saying, “A successful polygamous wife must regard her husband with indifference, and […]
[…] period, place, and people. According to Frank Stevens, who later helped her paint the LDS Manti Temple’s world room, Minerva’s paintings were dedicated to “telling the story” she felt compelled to paint as part […]
[…] in enacting this statute? It was, judging from the whole act, intended to be an aid in breaking up polygamy and the pretense thereof. The well-recognized difficulty of reaching the polygamy cases by reason […]
[…] Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president in England before World War II, from 1937 to 1940, and after the war from 1944 to 1946. These letters, […]
[…] final expression of a reaction against the attempt to frame a philosophy by rising into a supernatural world” (1927, 1:65). The Carvaka materialism of ancient India offers an illustration. Although most of what we […]
[…] the pogroms in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the Holocaust of World War II, Jewish demo graphic projections are bleak. A scholar has called it the “silent holocaust” […]
[…] like these made me cynical about anyone who wore a suit and tie and represented the business world. By the time I was eighteen, I often talked with my friends about the evils of […]
[…] and essays dealing with the way men and women should behave—both within the Church and in the world at large. At varying times, these readings have evoked in me feelings of sympathy, restless ness, […]
[…] only way that is truly free for a peasant: it comes to you. Ever since the ground- breaking studies of Gerd Theissen in the early seventies, the itinerant radicalism of Jesus and of the […]