Mary Firmage, daughter of President Hugh B. Brown, has recently deposited a large collection of her father’s personal letters in the Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president…
Few recent books substantiate the major claims of Restoration faith as well as Graydon Snyder’s Ante Pacem. A professor at Bethany Theological Seminary, Snyder convincingly shows that the early church had structures and cultic forms…
This morning I went to the funeral of a friend who was killed in a motorcycle accident. I slipped into the only vacant pew in the very back of the chapel and listened to the…
[…] as early as the mid-1930s when the Great Depression brought a sense of crisis in the Mormon community and perhaps a renewed sense of dependence on “first principles” and on the Church as a […]
[…] dells of Huntsville” (1981; 1988). Although only thirteen, by the end of her sophomore year, Fawn was dating, on a steady basis, Dilworth Jensen who, according to Dilworth’s daughter Patricia, was also from Huntsville […]
[…] were an abomination” in the sight of the Lord, such a confession of respect for another religious community is striking. Joseph’s own sense and vision of Judaism and the Jewish people were thrown into […]
[…] where I was a graduate student during most of the 1980s, I participated fully in the Church community. My callings included Blazer Scout leader, scoutmaster, Young Men’s president, and Sunday school teacher to the […]
[…] emphasizes group solidarity. However it may also provide some strengths, in linking the Church to the larger community and in providing ways to understand the people around us who don’t choose to be Latter-day […]
[…] the little desert hamlet of Short Creek on the Utah-Arizona border. Today the Utah side of the community, where Johnson died, is called Hildale, and the Arizona side is Colorado City. In the mid-1930s […]
Dialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83
Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.