[…] was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal […]
[…] it from where we stood. The new churchhouse was not two stories high with a peaked roof over its red brick walls and a pile of steps to climb to the whitewashed double doors […]
<i>Dialogue 33. 3 (Fall 2000): 137–151</i><br> Rees’s Fall 2000 artice is titled “”In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New […]
[…] millions of potential readers. This particular and somewhat older book, however, is of importance to Mormon scholarship over and above the issue of language access, for a couple of reasons: 1. German is an […]
[…] 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, […]