[…] had a good, affectionate wife, a promising young son, a comfortable house, a little farm, a good stock of cattle. I was in the church of Latter-Day Saints, settled in the garden of the […]
[…] wheels, decaying gently under an apricot tree beside my grandfather’s tool shed.” He describes his grandfather’s entire stock of rusty tools and the other treasures that enriched his own fantasy life, and ends with […]
[…] most of these titles will fade into footnotes. But, taken together, they denote the growing concern of American scholars with every aspect of Mormon life and doctrine, past and present, and they underscore the […]
[…] of the most self-evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) the mind attends to one thing at a time, and 2) that at least once a day the conscious mind is switched off.”
[…] at this point turn their attention from Mormonism as such, and begin to look at economic developments, politics, and the growth of ethnic communities—noting in general, an increasing pluralism within Utah and a loss […]
[…] study of Natural Theology, including these less obvious implications for organized religion, was transmitted to the emerging American intellectual community through the very fabric of modern science itself developed by the virtuosi and eighteenth-century […]
[…] in Zion. Indeed, he displayed a general hunger for information, asking one friend to “write all the news you can think of about Kirtland and Missouri and the affairs in that country,” and another […]
[…] a bank in Kirtland. When a charter was denied by the state legislature, an unchartered, note-issuing, joint stock company was founded in place of the bank; and in January it opened its doors for […]
[…] on his black article and was close to his family. Alice was the editor of our ward newsletter, and I knew of her considerable experience in publishing magazines and newsletters before her marriage. Royal […]
[…] the Sabbath, he requested the family girls sing the popular “In the Gloaming.” Rachel believed singing and newspaper reading breached the Sabbath and responded with a mortified, “Why Joseph, it’s Sunday!” Smith swept her […]