[…] relations and softened their stance on coordinated disciplines. Leaders did not want a repeat of the national headlines that swept the United States in September 1993. That does not mean that the boundaries are […]
[…] remains, insofar as we really try to take up the cross, a scandal and inconvenience to us today. All the uncertainty and occlusion we experience in trying to move through him toward our heavenly […]
[…] invites all to participate in worldwide fast Sunday and to pray for relief from coronavirus pandemic,” Deseret News, Mar. 26, 2020. Jason Swensen, “President Nelson calls for a second worldwide fast in response to […]
The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those […]
[…] time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. I approached the book as an Indigenous, Latter-day Saint woman, steeped in […]
[…] century, Quinn navigates the political conflicts of the 1950s to 1980s featuring Ezra Taft Benson, his conservative politics, and the Church’s public stance. A heralder to works like Matthew Harris’s Watchman on the Tower: […]
One of mankind’s great social, political, and moral problems is war. The constant menace of war keeps the minds of thinking men disturbed and grieved. More than any other thing, war destroys wealth, art, […]
[…] with Rigdon. Likewise, Rigdon had become disenchanted with Smith, due largely to the cancellation of the common stock association, the Kirtland Bank debacle, and the repeated failures to establish Zion. Nevertheless, prior to this, […]
[…] 51–60</i><br> “Of course, I didn’t really want to be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was a husband, then that […]
Mormons have long remained isolated from their neighbors by choice and by necessity. Today is not the past, however, and most Mormons live outside of Utah. Los Angeles and New York are as important […]