[…] (Journal History, 5 Sept. 1848, 4). At the 1862 general conference, participants clapped their hands together (Deseret News, 15 Oct. 1862). Beginning in 1892, with the capstone laying at the Salt Lake Temple, participants […]
<i>Dialogue 19.4 (Winter1986): 18–28</i><br> Taylor identifies the history behind the Smith Family and treasure seeking. During the 19th century treasure seeking is associated with both greed, but also obtaining spirtual knowledge like in Joseph […]
<i>Dialogue 20.2 (Summer 1987): 31–43</i><br> Stout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media. He talks about how […]
[…] to his apartment about his work on Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign gave me the feeling that our politics would not lead to a sudden and perfect rapport. Nor would our economic situations, I thought, […]
[…] the canyon on the Navajo bus. Only one person on our raft has been burning many calories today. I look over my shoulder at Terrill, our raftsman. He rotates his shoulders, his oars slack […]
[…] dashing moustache. He started in the typesetting business as a boy when it was all hot lead. Today he still sets hot lead in a workshop in his basement. He’s worked nights and weekends […]
[…] or to sketch a believable pic ture of any segment of the life they lived in their American promised land. In many respects, the Book of Mormon remains a sealed book to us because […]
[…] “a desperate effort to come to terms with my childhood.” Fawn McKay Brodie came from patrician Mormon stock. Her paternal grandfather, David McKay, helped found Huntsville, the small Utah farming community ten miles east […]
[…] with relativity for experimentally verified phenomena, but that made different predictions for untested phenomena. Relativity is well-established today precisely because it has withstood these challenges for eighty-five years. For example, recently Einstein’s general theory […]
[…] well. Such a feat, especially where quantification methodologies are applied, is an all too rare accomplishment in today’s world of historical scholarship. A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, […]