[…] March 1950 as quoted in William P. Collins, “The Baha’i Faith and Mormonism: A Preliminary Survey,” World Order 15 (Fall 1980/Winter 1981) p. 44; Shoghi Effendi, High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska, comp. National Spiritual […]
[…] grown in size and scale, the need to train new leaders in far-flung places and to keep order in the ranks has become an overriding concern. Administrative instruction is standardized, Church publications are correlated […]
[…] general attitudes. A Relief Society might be discussing the need to support home industry and the United Order, ways of caring for silkworms, and the growth of the grain storage program. Priesthood meeting would […]
[…] OF MORMON THOUGHT 13 (Summer 1980): 7-49. Joseph Smith Hyde, Orson Hyde (Salt Lake City, 1933), p. 6; Zina D. Huntington Young Diary, 13 Nov. 1844, Historical Department Archives of The Church of Jesus […]
[…] of optimism, a broadening of interests, the pursuit of knowledge and excellence in varied fields seemed the order of the day. But during the Mormon Reformation of 1856-57, pluralism was discouraged, and many such […]
[…] definite possibility.” Slipping graveward through that weekend, what did I do? Did I set my house in order? Did I write my will? Did I repent of my longstanding sins? I took the doctor’s […]
[…] that perplexity is perhaps not the problem but the solution. I will discuss her points in reverse order. If, as Lynn suggests, Mormonism is a religion whose aim is unambiguous truth, there is little […]
[…] Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of […]
[…] becomes obvious that this definition of the commandment results in outright disobedience to the original commandment. In order to discover the level of conformity to the divine injunction to sweat, we conducted the following […]
[…] behind the eighty-ninth section. And the word communitarian to describe practices and institutions such as the United Order was frowned upon; too close to “communism,” one imagines. These criticisms, however oblique in not mentioning […]