[…] or any other of the fallen nations. . . . They are not kept in reserve in order to come forth to receive such a degraded parentage” (JD 1:63). Joseph Fielding Smith described these […]
[…] of unrest among the missionaries. He instructed them in unorthodox doctrines such as conscientious objection, the united order, and the “new” form of spirituality (Harvey Journal, 1 Dec. 1960). Harvey did not agree with […]
[…] who drove El Dorados and BMW’s. While they were working weekends to make even bigger bucks to buy even bigger cars, he was sneaking around the woods looking for spoors. Three, even two years […]
[…] in all the plants and creatures in those rolling hills, I gained an understanding of the interwoven order of things. If we killed off the coyotes that bayed lonesomely through the moonlit nights and […]
[…] a typewriter into its case. When my mother found him at it, she merely turned the case over and fit the machine inside. Once, he could fix nearly any mechanical object imaginable. My older […]
[…] on their own terms, sometimes using the methods of the Children of Darkness (but without malice) in order to defeat them. Richard Niebuhr did not agree. He said as soon as virtue adopts these […]
[…] local Mormon ward. Fawn consented to be married there, despite her growing alienation from the Church, in order to please her mother (P. Brodie 1988). Indeed, Fawn’s mother was the only one of either […]
[…] Evan Mecham. Mon day mornings were brighter because people brought to work new jokes they had heard over the weekend. Children learned jokes at school and brought them home to their parents. Business people […]
[…] editor of the Times and Seasons, the bi-monthly “official” publication of the Church. During his brief proprietorship over the paper, editorials and columns devoted to the Jewish people bore the impress of Smith’s theological […]
[…] way ashamed of it. —Anthony Maitland Stenhouse So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to T. B. H. Stenhouse), a Scot transplanted temporarily to the western Canadian wilderness and an ardent nineteenth-century proponent of polygamy.