[…] during this period, while Ellen Spencer Clawson belonged to a rapidly expanding family kingdom in Salt Lake City. It was a critical period in Mormon history, the time of the “Mormon Reformation,” and shortly […]
The Everlasting Spires: A Story of the Salt Lake Temple . By Wallace Alan Raynor. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1965. 203 pp. $3.25. With the exception of a different title and the […]
When the all-seeing eye on the faca de of Zion’s Mercantile winked at him, beckoning him with its self-assured commingling of matter and spirit to write a novel about the Promised Land, Halldor Laxness […]
[…] own psyche. Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, selected and arranged by John A. Widtsoe (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1961) p. 68. Brigham Young, “Faithfulness and Apostacy,” Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2: 255-6. Joseph […]
[…] nothing happened, and after enough time had elapsed to indicate nothing would, I walked into the Redwood City ward meeting house one Sunday morning and asked, “Where do the gray-haired, hump-backed and beat-up deacons […]
[…] “Final Tribute.” New Times 11 0uly 24, 1978): 76. Johnson, Martin A., and Gary L. Bunker. “Ethni city and Resistance to Compensatory Education: A Comparison of Mormon and Non-Mormon Ethnic Attitudes.” Review of Religious […]
[…] we as a Church arrived at the policy of exclusion. Starting in the days of persecution in Missouri, the doctrine appeared to have grown by small but precedent-setting steps. The irony of the Church’s […]
[…] two such works. James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard’s The Story of the Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976) has already passed the acid test: it has been praised and criticized by […]
These three brief reprints provi de interesting insights into early Mormon medicine. The first piece, from an essay entitled “Millerism” in The American Journal of Insanity (January 1845), although not directed at Mormons is […]
[…] still going on. The history of the Saints is movement, movement from New York to Ohio to Missouri and Illinois and finally the long Westward Trek into the Salt Lake Valley. It is usual […]