[…] Lehi’s descendants into refugees, forcibly displacing those they had not already killed from their ancestral lands, then breaking treaty after treaty whenever they coveted the latest place of Native American resettlement. Eventually the Native […]
[…] even preside over some type of Mormon ecumenical council composed of intellectuals within the Church. Then the world would be treated to the spectacle of Mormons debating basic principles in the vain attempt to […]
[…] clear and explicit pronouncements and decisions that come to grips with the imperious truths of the contemporary world. It must be resolved not because we desire to conform, or because we want to atone […]
[…] in Your Sister in the Gospel, providing a fresh perspective on Mormonism from the view of an African American convert in the nineteenth century. Jane’s perspective, Newell argues, shows a form of Mormonism focused on […]
[…] write anything that anyone would want to read. I just didn’t think that anyone in the whole world would want to publish anything written in St. George, so I thought maybe I could do […]
[…] articles in Utah and their subsequent reputation there. We cannot imagine those articles being written today: the world has changed too much. Mutatis mutandis, granting the idioms and sentiments of this later time, if […]
[…] politics, see “Doctor’s Organization: Calling Abortion Bans ‘Fetal Heartbeat Bills’ is Misleading,” Guardian, June 5, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/ world/2019/jun/05 /abortion-doctors-fetal-heartbeat-bills-language-misleading. See Lauren MacIvor Thompson (@lmacthompson1), “1/Good morning! I am compelled to write my first ever […]
[…] chose their beds, settling in to arrange and elaborate and fall together into their private and compelling world. I hadn’t heard from a single one of the grown versions in all this driving away, […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902), 4:607 “Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Society,” Nauvoo Relief Society […]
[…] the problem of turning a desert frontier theocracy into a standard democratic American state. To the outside world the practice of polygamy came to be the symbol of the so-called Mormon rebellion, and it […]