[…] 1906, General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News ), p. 19, here after cited as Conference Reports. “Priesthood Quorum’s Table,” Improvement Era 17 (May […]
Dear Sirs: Boycotts at BYU have reached our ears here. Considering the official and unofficial discrimination at the “Y” in the past it is not unexpected. (Actually one boycott lead er was from a black […]
Willi am Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, has been easy to dismiss but difficult to deal with. More often than not, he has been described with adjectives like violent, wicked, unstable, […]
[…] eleven witnesses. His argument is essentially this: the Three Witnesses and some of the Eight Witnesses bec ame disaffected in the late 1830s and spent most or all of the remainder of their lives […]
[…] is a compelling tribute to the “everyday women of history,” as the jacket copy puts it. “Lively stories of courtship, love, inventiveness, humor, skulduggery, passion” are told in the words of eleven Western women who […]
[…] just discovering that the creations of literature had not ended in 1789, and the mention of an American literature would send colleagues into gales of laughter or, if the suggestion seemed serious, into shocked […]
[…] a peaceful world order that can operate without a balance of terror. “Thus,” says the paper, “even today, 22 years after the Heidelberg Theses, the church must recognize that the participation in the effort […]
[…] make a start toward acknowledging women’s roles in the settling of Zion. Certainly, getting bits of their stories between book covers does something towards greater recognition for our Mormon foremothers. But the significant question […]
[…] action as being needed for a long time. Next day a notice was published in the Deseret News that Thatcher had been “severed from the Council of Twelve Apostles and . . . deprived […]
[…] a Christian nation down the road to atheism. (“President McKay,” 1963) This statement, released to the Church News immediately following the announcement of the decision, contained no further explanatory comment. President McKay’s remarks reflect […]