Gospel by the Month: Ensign
April 25, 2018[…] Pratt in London, with the promise that it would “stand aloof from the common political and commercial news of the day,” it had covered the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. With the demise […]
[…] Pratt in London, with the promise that it would “stand aloof from the common political and commercial news of the day,” it had covered the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. With the demise […]
[…] campaign, Gordon Taylor Hyde, a former Mormon bishop, and Joseph J. Cannon, former editor of the Deseret News, prepared a seven-page pamphlet, “Morals and the Mayor,” which made numerous moral allegations against Lee’s administration […]
[…] with one but by revelation from God. Students at BYU are to listen respectfully (i.e., passively) to worldly ideas and then accept or reject them depending upon how closely these ideas conform with revealed […]
1936. Sonia Harris is born on the Waushakie Indian Reservation near Malad, Idaho. 1948. She moves with her family to Logan, Utah, where she graduates from high school, works in a bank for one […]
[…] Church yield to the modern? Can a Mormon make it in the marketplace? Why the lack of mutual support: the Church indifferent to the arts, its artists indifferent to the Church? Why bother? These […]
[…] for women to explore individual talents, and in the “daughter” role encouraged by the Church they founded newspapers, sought educations and developed creative talents. It is obvious that now the Church sees a real […]
[…] they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come” (Church News, week ending 23 April I960, p. 3). The Church’s determined reluctancy to endorse either view is […]
[…] lace and silk around her dolls gave way to curiosity about the bundles of old letters and newspapers stored in a corner. She read them all. “A light had dawned upon me in that […]
[…] (Oct. 1958) : 644-48; Jan Thompson, “Prepare for Life, Not Just Marriage” (interview with Susan Memmot), Church News, 18 July 1981, p. 7. Samuel W. Richards, “The Duty of Marriage,” The Contributor 13 (1892): […]
[…] good wives were supposed to be that mattered, not what they really were. The same is true today and is the great stumbling block of the current women’s movement. In the traditionalist setting, women […]