[…] the a priori issue of the legitimacy of the faith assumptions. Such middle ground is created when mutual interest in the existential history of the Latter-day Saints replaces mutual anxiety over dogma. Additionally it […]
[…] discovery of Mormon belief and practices, predicted that if something did not change the Mormon “course, the world’s history will not furnish a parallel of degradation and wretchedness.” Among the earliest observers to suggest […]
[…] cultivate the gift of healing, “every doctor might be removed from our midst.” In 1852 the Deseret News had cheered when doctors gave up trying to make a living in Utah and moved on. […]
[…] Japan and has not become an international church in the full sense. We have often read such headlines and titles of articles as “expanding church” and “international church” in the past several years. The […]
[…] continental coasts, were discovered and settled. How could primitive man have crossed thousands of miles of the world’s greatest ocean to colonize these islands without sophisticated navigational skills and ships? During the late eighteenth […]
[…] Grant Family Correspondence, LDS Church Archives. Another wife complained that the frequently writing Rachel monopolized all the news, ibid. HJG to Florence , 8 June 1905, LC 39:832; RRG, Thirteenth Ward Relief Society Minutes, […]
By 1900, the general leadership of the Relief Society, the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, and the Primary Association had together made plans for a woman’s building for The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] And here again came a surge of assurance of method mixed with all the madness in the world. Just looking at the metal letters with the backdrop of stars, I felt like a wayward […]
[…] of the two peoples’ association during centuries of bondage, but because the Nile culture enriched the known world. As recently as Dickens’s time, quacks could attract crowds by claiming the title, “Doctor of Egypt.” […]
[…] If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders long enough to see what’s really going on in this world. . . .” Carmen Maria Stavely, whose exotic given names trailed a deliberately homespun life like […]