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May 3, 2018[…] Americans, I am frightened by what is rhetorically (and often demagogically) called the breakdown of law and order in my country. As is also true for most, no member of my family has suffered […]
[…] Americans, I am frightened by what is rhetorically (and often demagogically) called the breakdown of law and order in my country. As is also true for most, no member of my family has suffered […]
[…] Apostles.” This claim greatly excited Rigdon, as he had constantly tried and failed to establish the “ancient order of things” in Alexander Campbell’s religious movement. Rigdon was nevertheless very skeptical of Mormonism because “they […]
[…] and the ethical ambivalence that characterized the rise of industrialization, these communities offered not a retreat from social order but a laboratory in which a new complex of religious and social values could be developed […]
[…] accepted a big wedding for the same day and would not be able to fill the branch’s order. Spencer came home from the caterer’s and went straight to his room. He lay on his […]
[…] explorers and pioneers, but it represented a willingness to give limited support to a military effort in order to benefit the larger needs of the Mormon kingdom. Ironically, in later years the Mormon Battalion […]
[…] Saints planning to go by sea on the first emigration to California were putting their affairs in order and gathering to New York City. They came from all directions: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New […]
[…] “You know what I mean.” Old Fairbank was a polygamist, the leader of a community called the Order of Enoch that operated a coal mine a couple of miles farther up the canyon. To […]
[…] his protagonist Bruce Mason on a brief visit to Salt Lake City some forty-five years after leaving home. The seventy-ish Mason, now a successful lawyer, distinguished internationalist and former ambassador, returns to the city of […]
[…] an American correspondent in the Russian Zone and former Mormon missionary in Germany, General Vasili Sokolovsky’s 1946 order permitted regular Church services; Church representatives were allowed to travel freely (there were thirty-one local German […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 69–82</i><br>Zina, like many other early converts to Mormonism, was a child of the Second Great Awakening.