Category: History

Household Codes and “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”

By M. David Huston M. David Huston lives and works in the Washington, DC metro area. He is a husband and the father of four children.   Although it remains outside the LDS Church’s canonized scripture, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (hereafter, “the Proclamation”) is framed authoritatively. It ascribes “divine design” to the …

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Daniel Webster Jones: A Western Hero

By Victoria Riskin Victoria Riskin is an award-winning television writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America West, and the author of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir.     Or download the audio file here: Daniel Webster Jones: A Western Hero     A statue of Daniel Webster, the great American …

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Polygamy and the Early Mormon Hawaiian Mission

By John J. Hammond John J. Hammond has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught political science and philosophy at Kent State University for thirty-five years, retiring in 2007. For the past fourteen years, he has enjoyed researching Mormon topics.     Or right-click here to download the audio.   …

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Own Your Religion

By Gregory A. Prince   Gregory A. Prince is the author of Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (University of Utah, 2016), David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (University of Utah, 2005), and Power from on High: The Development of the Mormon Priesthood (Signature, 1995).     For two years, …

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Single Men in Nineteenth-century Mormonism

By Jeffery Ogden Johnson BEING SINGLE IN the Mormon Church has always been a challenge. An unsigned 1849 Frontier Guardian article, published by apostle Orson Hyde in Kanesville, Iowa, unequivocally declared:   That man who resolves to live without woman, and that woman who resolves to live without man, are enemies to the community in which they …

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Impossible Hymn

The course of study for Relief Society and Priesthood for 2015 is the Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson.  Lesson 11 is titled “Follow the Living Prophet”.  This lesson has all ready generated some discussion as much of it is based on President Benson’s controversial talk given in 1980 at BYU “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the …

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