The speed with which photographs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to […]
If you like fresh air, 25¢ hamburgers, and security, New York may not be the place for you. If you want a Rinso-clean wash you can hang in the backyard, where crickets sound at […]
[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
[…] 9.4 (Winter 1974): 21–34</i><br> Foster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “ The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before […]
[…] to labor.” Wrote Young, Thatcher “throws away the Priesthood and hugs poli tics, rendering fealty to the world at the same time inconstant to his former vows.” Lorenzo Snow would agree a year later […]
[…] learning to obey all the rules and not always knowing why. This is especially hard in a world where everything you do usually has to have a reason.” Other, less prevalent stresses included the […]
[…] and dreamed dreams, re stored the church, and revealed the will of the Lord to a sinful world.” To resolve this “schizophrenic state of Mormon history, with its double interpretive strand of Joseph Smith […]
[…] manifest to me that they pertained to the new name that is given the saints that the world knows not of. To the descendant of slaves, a “new name” would have great significance. Jane […]
[…] admired his innovative lifestyle, carried out at the same time the LDS church sent missionaries around the world. Grandfather Munhall—a Methodist evangelist who traveled widely, knew the Bible “from front to back,” and wrote […]
<i>Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38</i><br>In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.