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 […]
[…] sold their shut-in viewers ever more costly plans of salvation” (p. 12). And though she admits en countering many kind, generous, and sincere people practicing “too many good deeds” among the evangelical community, she also […]
[…] its twenty-first year with the publication of this issue. Launched in 1966 as a daring and earnest ef fort to transform the serious conversation of Mormonism from monologue to dialogue, the journal has thrived for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a sick child out of a narrow log cabin into a beautiful meadow where he could rec over the will to live, a world in which fathers overpowered bears but were helpless to save […]
[…] the death of his first wife (p. 34); and later Brigham’s assertion while serving a mission to Canada that “women should not govern me” (p. 36), a rather revealing statement in light of his […]
[…] current state of religious tolerance and future trends. The Bogardus Social Distance Scale has been used for over six decades to “estimate the amount of potential and real conflict existing between any cultural groups, […]
[…] philosophy, and end up being wrong, you will lose your soul (1981, 8-9). If any doubts arise over the accounts presented by their canon, Mormons either avoid the matter or refer to Joseph Smith’s […]
[…] more than fifty times in Church publications since the mid-1970s. Her Queen Esther appeared on the c over of the 1986 Relief Society Manual. No fewer than eleven of her works appeared in the […]