[…] and Mexico required people to identify the specific denomination they identified with, and numbers were tabulated accordingly. For the first time, we have an independent set of figures for Church membership in the region […]
[…] sanctifying and revelatory powers. It took a restoration of the priesthood and gospel back to the earth for these spiritual blessings to be enjoyed again. At least that is the standard Latter-day Saint doctrine […]
[…] through the imagery of the stars. He had once at an earlier date, while taken with zeal for his newfound religion, tried to predict the future movement of the Mormons after they settled the […]
For almost 130 years, Mormon missionaries have been going to foreign lands. Most of this activity has been in Western European countries where the culture and the political and social institutions were quite […]
[…] of earth and hell can never prevail against it. —Joseph Smith, Jr., 1842 (History of the Church, 5:139-40) For Joseph Smith and his successors, the temple clearly stood at the heart of the restoration. Both […]
[…] to systematically examine this subject. Before embarking on a detailed discussion of the implications of modern science for Mormon theology, a short review of some recent scientific developments is in order. It is, of […]
[…] feeling of the Brethren.” During the next several months Apostle Hugh B. Brown actively (and successfully) campaigned for the Democratic candidate in Utah’s U.S. senatorial race, and against Benson’s support of the incumbent Republican. […]
By 1982 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought had been publishing for sixteen years and had operated at both ends of the U.S. under three different editorships. It was born, flourished for several years, […]
[…] have also felt uneasy about the quick polarizing rhetoric, the boasting of our power, the clamoring calls for revenge, and the military force we have unleashed upon other countries. I have wondered if there […]
[…] the Improvement Era in September 1933, it did not seem out of place in a publication intended for the general church membership. In the same issue of the Improvement Era, Theodore E. Curtis posted […]