[…] Into the Role for the Mormon Easter Pageant.” Phoenix Arizona Republic. 19 March 1978. “‘Brigham’ Opens at Fox Theater.” Las Vegas Sun. 9 April 1978. “Famed Tabernacle Organist Retires.” Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel. 13 […]
[…] collection of biographies chronicling the lives of nine senior ward members. Impetus for the project came when news reached Bill Cottam during his initial year as First Ward bishop that several older members had […]
[…] to be Perry Mason; what happens to the story then? Wouldn’t the child have to wonder, ‘ Am I dreaming all this, or was Perry Mason God all this time and nobody knew it?’ […]
[…] 2007): 11–41</i><br> These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were […]
[…] U.S. presidential platform. Orson, along with other campaigners, returned to Nauvoo by early fall in response to news of Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s murders on 27 June 1844. After a brief power struggle between […]
[…] politician visits Salt Lake City or the Polynesian Cultural Center, these stories invariably appear in the Church News. When I was at BYU, a favorite story was about the Pope’s nephew joining the Church and […]
[…] kingdoms changed over time, but by 1860 plural marriage was a principle which committed Mormons were expected to live. Two significant events occurred in the mid-1850s that encouraged the spread of polygamy among those who […]
[…] concluded that the principle of plural marriage must have been revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831 (Deseret News, May 20,1886). In the December 8,1831, Ohio Star, Ezra Booth wrote of a Mormon revelation to […]
[…] I are not Utahns. We have never been Utahns. We are California Mormons. California Mormons, and I am speaking of California Mormons of our time, are more independent than Utah Mormons; they were grateful […]
[…] American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked […]