[…] Street. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1979. McMillan, Constant Van Brunt. Donny and Marie Osmond: Breaking all the Rules. St. Paul, Minnesota: EMC Corporation, 1977. A Noble Son: Spencer W. Kimball. Salt […]
[…] in Zion. Indeed, he displayed a general hunger for information, asking one friend to “write all the news you can think of about Kirtland and Missouri and the affairs in that country,” and another […]
[…] it, I have three alternatives: I can throw away my Mormon heritage (rejecting my personal history and breaking family ties); I can recant my heresy, and repent (giving up my academic and personal integrity); […]
[…] system of religious education. The mission and the Church have also used public radio and a small newspaper to inform potential Latter-day Saints as well as members about church matters and teachings. The foregoing […]
[…] debts from the Depression. Eccles vigorously spoke his mind. During February 1933, in hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, he had the opportunity to present his theories plus a specific program for immediate government […]
[…] Mormons. An early manifestation of this problem was President Buchanan’s decision to send U.S. troops to Utah, news of whose coming reached the Salt Lake Valley on the tenth anniversary of the pioneers’ arrival. […]
In Guatemala I saw Indians sitting by the side of the road dangling their feet over a cliff as they stared across the valley to the mountains beyond. The guide told me they often sat…
[…] album include Walther’s little known Third Organ Concerto and a flawless rendition of J. S. Bach’s finger- breaking Fugue in G Major (the “Jig Fugue”), played in a crisp, detached style which recalls Schreiner […]
[…] out with Science and Belief in God, a strong defense of evolutionary thought, and this from Deseret News Press just five years before the controversy over Roberts’ manuscript erupted. Nonetheless, the topic was very […]
Joseph Fielding Smith, Apostle and Church Historian, once published an answer to an inquiry about when the Word of Wisdom became a commandment. His response, widely accepted as definitive both then and subsequently, was included…