[…] Just three years after Pratt’s death in 1881, Charles W. Penrose, then chief editor of the Deseret News, delivered a discourse that adapted Pratt’s absolutist view of God despite the statements of the First […]
[…] James Whitehead’s information about the January 1844 blessing of Joseph Smith III is thus in the good- news-bad-news category. Much of his 1892 testimony about the blessing is remarkably consistent with documentary evidence to […]
[…] of hostilities, he crusaded against the League of Nations, moved back to Utah, unsuccess fully dabbled in politics, and received several State Department assignments. In 1926 he assumed charge of the United States Mexico […]
[…] House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1912), pp. 18, 99-100, 234-38; John A. Widtsoe, “Fundamentals of Temple Doctrine,” Utah Genealogical and Historical […]
[…] many Mormons: the family, Mormon/non-Mormon relations, pornography, cable TV laws, Planned Parenthood, Mormon scholars and their plight, politics, and business and economics. His articles hit home with a number of liberal Mormons who are […]
[…] and child. Mrs. Cowdy was captured and the others were killed. On 1 October 1856, the Deseret News reported that “Margaretts and Cowdy were on their way back to England by their own counsel,” […]
Several years ago an unsigned Church News editorial on “Two Great I Women” praised Emma Hale and her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, for their loyalty to Joseph Smith: “They never hesitated to valiantly defend […]
[…] maybe it is all a great libel. It doesn’t matter. What matters is what the religion is today. Many worthy religions have foundered when their adherents forgot their original principles—but here is a religion […]
[…] (HC 2:180-200), and long before the Twelve assumed any significant administrative functions. It combined the functions of today’s Corporation of the President, the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Presiding Bishopric […]
[…] sounds came through the wood, muffled and methodical. Down the hall a once-strong voice sang, “I walked today where Jesus walked, in days of long ago.” The words came clear and steady. He knew […]