[…] point in the course of his remarks than to overturn Sidney Rigdon’s pretensions.” Rigdon himself, in a 6 December 1870 letter to Brigham Young, accused his former sparring partner of duplicity in encouraging transfiguration […]
[…] Joseph Smith’s Account of His First Vision and the 1820 Revival,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6 (Spring 1971): 106-107. Ibid., pp. 98-99. Lucy Mack Smith’s original manuscript, written by Howard Coray, is […]
[…] tame olive-tree, which a man took and nourished in his vineyard” (Jacob 5:3). The beginning of chapter 6 also specifically discusses some aspects of the allegory, particularly the last section in which the good […]
[…] Both of my grandparents were stumpy little Welsh people, Grandma barely five feet tall, and Grandpa not over five and-a-half. Grandma had a New Year’s Day tradition which might have been a Welsh one: […]
[…] the analysis charitable, especially of some of the city’s more notorious residents. It should be required reading for all inquisitive students of Latter-day Saint history. I was fascinated by Leonard’s discussion of Nauvoo’s growth […]
[…] now, but you never know.” “This gold—I mean those fossils—did you bring them here to sell? We buy unusual rocks—they don’t have to be valuable—an’ show ’em to the tourists. These fossils you got, […]
[…] date of ordination, or from date of entrance into the Quorum? A related ambiguity arose on April 6,1854, when Jedediah Grant was ordained an apostle, then took his place as second counselor in First […]
[…] Wade has had the wonderful opportunity of speaking on this issue on national Italian television—how do you buy that kind of coverage? But we consistently downplay the whole connection between science, religion, and the […]
[…] next time take another book. Preach at every place, and invite the congregation after the sermon to buy the relevant tract and to read it.” This approach was exceedingly effective in the frontier areas […]
[…] that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson […]