[…] seek remunerative employment. But Church-related projects were another matter. It was hard to participate in a ground breaking or help a congregation to start a building fund without making a contribution; a thousand dollars […]
[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]
[…] of this world and rulers in the kingdom. Matthew, in contrast to Luke’s conservatism with regard to breaking up and redistributing Q material, has, in the process of developing five major dominical discourses (Matt. […]
[…] of being consistent to the point where church membership would dwindle away to the vanishing point, or breaking down the system in order to keep the churches going, the New England ministers held a […]
[…] rights, which are indeed expansive, are not necessarily coextensive with the media’s moral obligation to report the news in a fair and accurate fashion. For instance, in the media frenzy surrounding the O. J. […]
[…] in 1995. Since the church leadership report total member ship most of the time, and refrain from breaking it down, total numbers for the church still look about the same as they have been […]
[…] windstorm, perhaps, which ever visited Salt Lake, prevailed between 10:30 and 12 o’clock noon,” declared the Deseret News in describing the storm, “the destruction . . . was beyond precedent here.” “The air was […]
These two volumes aim to describe the development of the hierarchical leadership and organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as well as certain related issues. They begin with…
[…] eventually developed, individuals considered themselves married to each other and exchanged heterosexual partners frequently within the community, while breaking up all exclusive romantic attachments, which were described as “special love,” antisocial behavior threatening communal order. […]
[…] mile stone in Mormon letters. Although Tathea’s appearance was heralded by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, LDS-centered journal editors, either standing all amazed at this imaginative theological thunderbolt or overwhelmed by the […]