[…] Kirtland, and then gave directions for seating of the priesthood quorums and congregation for the assembly (Deseret News, 8 Oct. 1877, Minutes of the General Conference, p. 2). This assembly would offer a public […]
[…] of death. Using this base, including 196 suicide cases reported on the state death certificates, we searched newspapers for published obituaries, news stories of deaths, and other published items to match birth dates, death […]
[…] and his straight, liberal friends to ponder, discuss, and shake their heads about. Second, although he l aments the abuses of his profession regarding gay people, he does not question or even offer to […]
[…] that was suddenly grave and authoritarian and not quite his own: “Elder, Joseph Smith never practiced polyg amy. That is a false teaching of the apostate Reorganized Church.” It took me a few moments […]
[…] entered the LTM, at that time located in Knight-Mangum Hall on the south end of the Brigh am Young University campus. He seemed prepared, outgoing, friendly, and his enthusiasm was contagious. Perhaps being a […]
[…] much-anticipated article on the early Mormon “Chain of Belonging,” an especially beautiful personal essay by Scott Abbott, and an interview with Massimo Introvigne, a brief excerpt of which follows. Introvigne is a Roman Catholic […]
[…] A Special Issue of Dialogue on Mormonism and the Environment Steven L. Peck, Guest Editor I bec ame active in the Church while I was serving in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany in […]
[…] “the word” is compared to seed being cast onto the ground where it might grow or perish. And the word “parable” itself comes from the Greek—para (“with” or “alongside”) and ballein (“to put” or […]
[…] resistance, ten thousand paper cuts, ten thousand pleasures, and ten thousand pains. Miller gives us the depressing news that while we “may yet dream of the frictionless, of floating in zero-G,” like Phil, we […]
[…] death. Barnes became acquainted with Mormonism largely through her work on the PBS documentary, The Mormons. Hearing stories about Joseph Smith, researching the works of Fawn Brodie and Richard Bushman, meeting with the LDS […]