[…] by Him after Trouble with the Church; Has Left the City.” The sensational article began: No local news story published in recent years has caused so much comment as the exclusive story in yesterday’s […]
[…] the church continues to expand internationally (proportionally speaking more growth is occurring off-continent now than within the USA and Canada) scholar ship by Mormon scholars or on the topic of Mormonism will become increasingly […]
[…] Mormons”? Are they first and foremost in their own self-definitions “Mormon,” and secondly “European,” be it Dutch, English, French or Portuguese? Or are they “Mormon Europeans,” for whom their national (and by extension European) […]
Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was […]
[…] children through insensitivity and even infidelity?” and called them “pathetic men or women.” The reference to “ breaking the tender hearts” of course echoes the language of Jacob’s strong denunciation of adulterous husbands in […]
[…] the 1996 session, legislative leaders held a “secret meeting” regarding gay clubs in high schools. According to news reports, legislative leaders distributed anti-homosexual materials to legislators and attempted to swear them to secrecy regarding […]
[…] Andrew Jenson, Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 569; see also Andrew Jenson, Conference Report, April 1923, 78-81. Mark L Grover, “The […]
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]
[…] “notice of several months” for the event. The village newspaper maintained its general policy of avoiding local news (except paid advertisements), but Palmyra’s anticipation of this camp-meeting led to the front-page story on Wednesday, […]
[…] Sensitive to public criticism about The Way to Perfection, the aging apostle denied in the LDS Church News and in Answers to Gospel Questions that he ever taught that Black people were an “inferior […]