<i>Dialogue 18 .4 (Winter 1984): 65–80</i><br> Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants […]
[…] my profession as a healthcare executive, I murmured: “Why me?” Naomi reminded that I had long agonized over the status of the blacks in the Church and in our society. Here was an opportunity […]
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[…] instructing members of the Quorum of the Twelve to prepare for a mission the following spring “ over the great waters.” Quorum President Thomas B. Marsh in the 3 August 1838 Elder’s Journal specifically […]
[…] are none that are known” (p. 38). Also, “At this point, Joseph’s active imagination would have taken over and begun to consider the possibilities” (p. 118). On still another page the writer in a […]
[…] evenings, with preaching services, programs, concerts, and small group meetings, followed by late-night gatherings in homes all over town. Before a World Conference session is called to order, the main conference chamber, which can […]
[…] process, despite their protestations to the contrary, these evangelical entrepreneurs and pulpit politicos are “not creating a Christian counter-culture but rather a counterfeit culture” (p. 22). Flake adds a fifth type of contemporary evangelical, much […]
These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed Main […]
[…] gold miner, a Mormon missionary to the Sandwich Islands, a farmer and devoted family man, and, for over twenty years, as an ordinance worker in the St. George Temple. His extant diaries and day […]
[…] in equal measure … . The transparent surfaces of Juanita’s unhurried prose play, as in Willa Cather, over unsuspected depths” (Mulder 1984). A few reviewers had reservations. One was unhappy that the account brought […]