[…] opinions about its “officialness.” A search through the 1970s issues of the Ensign magazine and the Church News failed to turn up any official announcement. A spokesman from the First Presidency’s office “seemed to […]
[…] was off-road Missouri, small-town Utah, through and through. Maggie was the past. Still, I replay that evening news in my mind—the bright burning of half a-million gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen flaming in […]
We often hear the phrase, “The Church is the same all over the world.” While a mutual commitment to the gospel provides a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood that transcends many cultural barriers, I […]
[…] the newspapers were late, we saw and heard enough about the “way it was” out in the world to huddle together—secure, protected, encircled by the eternal mountains. We thanked God for our membership in […]
[…] Pixton, who is in the U.S. Navy, joined the Church in Italy and has lived throughout the world. Elijah Royster has lived only in Hawaii as a Latter-day Saint but previously traveled in the […]
[…] that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed their innocence to the end.
[…] (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992). Mauss, 85. Ibid., 167. Ibid.,xii. Ibid., 167. “Six Intellectuals,” 68. Deseret News, 1993-1994 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1992). See Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d […]
[…] dear granddaughter, Dolly Sri, I knew you would cause me problems the first time I held you in my arms. My anxiety became real when I saw you win your first gymnastic meet. It […]
[…] a Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 240-41; and William Clayton’s Journal (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1921), 83, 91,136-137,143,149. Poulsen, The Landscape, 109; Richard H. Jackson, “Righteous and Environmental Change: The Mormons […]
<i>Dialogue 32.1 (Spring 1999): 119–135</i><br>Norman discusses instances where the racist teachings that justified the priesthood restrictions before 1978 continue to be taught.