Mormons might find particular interest in the recent defeat by the California legislature of a bill that would have repealed all laws against sexual relationships by consenting adults. Only an impassioned stand by a […]
[…] when the ice broke and “the river was navigable, U.S. troops stationed at New Orleans were under orders to go upriver to Nauvoo, disarm the Saints, serve Federal indictments on Brigham and the Twelve […]
For the most part, Mormons have been a socially homogeneous people. True, the initial Anglo-American stock was reinforced from time to time by immigrants from Western Europe, but these converts were quickly absorbed into […]
It was in the year 1930, after an unusual “calling” from the Church, that I made a momentous personal decision: to enter the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and work toward the […]
[…] at the beginning of the Solemn Assembly. President Tanner called each priesthood rank of the Church in order (First Presidency, Apostles, General Authorities, High Priests, etc., to Aaronic Priesthood and general assembly) to stand […]
So much of Utah’s early history has religious significance that the artist attempting to preserve its heritage has often found himself interpreting people and events of some concern to the Mormon Church. To the […]
[…] necessity. But even Jefferson would agree that religious faith was necessary for the stability of the social order. The Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists who supported him were intent not upon the destruction of religious […]
[…] lying . . . and deceit, and immorality and a breakdown of decency and of law and order in our country,” President Harold B. Lee suggested that it was precisely the gospel principles that […]
[…] the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. Dallin H. Oaks, “Alternate Voices,” Apr. 1989; Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Despite Church Warnings, […]