[…] henceforth black men may hold the priesthood.” This involved the “reclassification of a whole segment of society.” News of the First Presidency’s announcement, as dramatically retold by Janet Brigham in Sunstone, “was electric—it swept […]
[…] 153-55. Aldrich, “Organizational Boundaries,” p. 289. Membership figures are from 1983 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1982), pp. 214-16. “Wilford Woodruff and the Changing Nature of Mormon Religious Experience,” Church History 45 […]
[…] 14. Ibid., p. 15. R. V. Chamberlin, ed., Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1925), pp. 321-22. Joseph Fielding Smith in an interview with G. E. Tickemyer in Salt […]
[…] chair ruled against objection, but the conference voted to table the entire matter. Looking toward the 1972 World Conference, the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan branch passed a resolution on expanded female participation in church life. […]
[…] Apostle James Talmage—the “intelligent exercise of common sense” (Talmage 1922, 3). In the words of a Deseret News editorial accompanying the opening of a well-equipped Church-sponsored hospital in 1902, “Remedies are provided by the […]
[…] Helen froze. “Lands alive, child,” exclaimed Amy after a long pause. “I bet you haven’t prayed in English before. Go ahead and pray in your own language.” Still confused, Helen began to pray in […]
[…] that primary, handwritten documents were abundantly discoverable. The documents of lesser importance than the few that made news stories gave his major discoveries credibility, and vice versa. His customers knew that they could lose […]
[…] of obedience and the law prohibiting murder: ” ‘He believed God. His undaunted faith carried him with breaking heart toward the land of Moriah with this young son who little suspected the agonies through […]
[…] is changing and it is changing in a major way. On 9 December 1987 an official Church news release described the belief in the superiority of one race or color over another as “abhorrent […]
[…] to the main mast. The gale howled through the spars and rigging. Soon “mountain high” waves were breaking over the deck and pounding like thunder against the creaky hull. The ship pitched to the […]