Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint women showed a remarkable propensity for organizing. To engage in benevolent service, to share useful information, to fill social and spiritual needs, they met together in the humid summers of Nauvoo, […]
[…] in a June 1839 sermon as a principle which allowed a Church member, after a lifetime of service and devotion, to be “sealed up” to exaltation while yet living, a concept clearly based on […]
[…] whose purposes were quite clearly more didactic than biographical. Moreover, Mormon, as he repeatedly tells us, was writing the record of his people specifically for us, the Saints of the restoration. I know of […]
[…] were taken there when too young to know any better. . . . It is time to get supper, so I must bid you good-bye and may Heaven’s blessing be with you is the […]
[…] resolving conflict since they are conscientious objectors. The Federal Republic currently requires fifteen months of compulsory military service from all male citizens, although those who obtain conscientious-objector status may complete so-called Ersatzdienst, or alternate […]
[…] faith and their obligations to it. I, for one, despair at the current despair. Leonard J. Arrington, writing in DIALOGUE in 1965, identified three functions of intellectuals within society and within the LDS Church. […]
[…] Mormon hater, Thomas Sharp, publisher of the rabid, Mormon-baiting Warsaw Signal, at that time the only non-Mormon paper in Hancock County. Gregg contributed a few items to Sharp, the beginning of their association. Later, […]
[…] relevant and palatable to those outside of the church. Yet while this flurry of theological thinking and writing has occurred, we are unaware of any theological discussion of how Reorganized Latter Day Saints ought […]
[…] prophets to alter the policy and for the peculiar position of General Authorities pledged to lifelong religious service. Brigham Young, Jr., who attended Thatcher’s meeting with Woodruff on 2 October, conceded the strong case […]
[…] Phelps, Smith’s scribe in Kirtland, has provided a commentary on the Prophet’s marriage teachings of that period. Writing to his wife in Missouri 9 September 1835, Phelps explained: “I have it in my heart […]