We often hear the phrase, “The Church is the same all over the world.” 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 Church’s 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 States—the legend of the Three Nephites. And for over three decades it remained the only reference. Then in 1938, in a short article entitled “The […]
[…] money himself. I hope so. I really wish I knew that he did. 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 […]
[…] than they”) referred to an explicit hierarchy of spiritual talent in pre mortal life, one which carried over neatly into the mortal sphere. Full recognition and the highest responsibilities fell to those born under […]
[…] language, these factors include the 1867 publication of Joseph Smith’s biblical revision, the nineteenth-century Protestant Catholic conflict over governmental authorization of a single version for use in American public schools, the menace of higher […]
[…] Charlotte and I, with a few students, sat there watching apple blossoms and forsythia toss and lean over the fence from a neighbor’s yard. Still weary from a late night arrival by train, we were […]
[…] editor of the Times and Seasons, the bi-monthly “official” publication of the Church. During his brief proprietorship over the paper, editorials and columns devoted to the Jewish people bore the impress of Smith’s theological […]