Minerva’s Calling
April 16, 2018[…] Adolph Teichert, not a member of the LDS Church, whom she would later marry.ย After school was over in 1914, she painted china in Salt Lake City and then went to American Falls, where […]
[…] Adolph Teichert, not a member of the LDS Church, whom she would later marry.ย After school was over in 1914, she painted china in Salt Lake City and then went to American Falls, where […]
[…] philosophy, and end up being wrong, you will lose your soul (1981, 8-9).ย If any doubts arise over the accounts presented by their canon, Mormons either avoid the matter or refer to Joseph Smithโs […]
[…] politics. Brooks is also a scholar who also blogs at Religion Dispatches and Ask Mormon Girl, an online community of questioning for Mormons of many stripes. One of the most prominent recurring themes on […]
[…] in calculating who that might be. It wasnโt always necessarily thought to be the eldest son. But over the years, between the death of Joseph in 1844 and the formal organization of the Church […]
We often hear the phrase, โThe Church is the same all over the world.โ While a mutual commitment to the gospel provides a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood that transcends many cultural barriers, I […]
[…] between two positions. First is the commitment to the Pauline ecumenical vision of one God who is over, through, and in all, with one faith, one baptism, and one body (Eph. 4:4-6). In light […]
[…] announced the Churchโs decision to abandon Nauvoo, and the Saints were now hurriedly preparing for a massive over land trek to the West. As a destination, Brigham Young was considering upper California, at that […]
[…] of the best known supernatural-narrative cycles in the United Statesโthe legend of the Three Nephites. And for over three decades it remained the only reference. Then in 1938, in a short article entitled โThe […]
[…] money himself. I hope so. I really wish I knew that he did.ย I began to understand over the next ten months how naive I was to believe my church could relieve the poor […]
[…] arbitrary, then words no longer have magical power, for they no longer directly relate to the thing over which they are supposed to exert power. For most of the eighteenth century this sense for […]