[…] seven of seventeen chapters concern the banking enterprise. The author devotes the first two chapters to the English background of the Walker clan and the next five to their pioneering journey to Utah. Chapters […]
[…] in Thatcher, Arizona, and found a variety of Socialist documents, including personal statements, party platforms, periodicals, and news papers. George W. Williams, Jr., and Lorenzo Watson, the contractors for the building, and active Mormon […]
Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127
Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and mother in a nuclear family where the husband is the provider and the woman’s energies are directed toward her family, the Church, and perhaps community service.
[…] badly. He stayed away four full weeks, reappearing, as everyone now knows, on “that” fateful Sunday. The news of his return could not have spread any more quickly if it had been posted on […]
[…] safety should by now be obvious. I believe we are mistaken in our tendency to disparage the search for security or safety. Our lives are not our own until the legitimate source of safety […]
[…] to southern Alberta, and most of them brought only one wife. Thus, in 1888, when the Lethbridge News and the Canadian government began accusing the Mormons of practicing polygamy, they insisted that they were […]
[…] published in Mormon periodicals such as The Morning and Evening Star, while a special hymnal for the English Saints, the Manchester Hymnal was published in 1840. Other official hymnals were: Psalmody of 1857, The […]
[…] and child. Mrs. Cowdy was captured and the others were killed. On 1 October 1856, the Deseret News reported that “Margaretts and Cowdy were on their way back to England by their own counsel,” […]
[…] presenting a careful history of stratigraphy. The study of stratigraphy was pioneered by William Smith, “an unsophisticated English civil engineer unacquainted with evolution” (p. 88). Beginning in 1781 as a land surveyor’s assistant, Smith […]
[…] Taylor was baptized in Toronto by Parley P. Pratt, he had completed a quest for religious certainty. His search had taken him from Methodism to Christian Primitivism and had in volved a period of fascination […]