The filming of General Conference began humbly, with one man sitting in a hole he’d carved out beneath the Tabernacle floor. Frank Wise was a young British convert to the Church who grew up wandering the film studios around London. When he emigrated to Utah and joined the Church in 1939, he was immediately hired …
I had been suckered into donating platelets, which meant I was going to be stuck in a chair with needles in my arms for two and a half hours. Fortunately, the Red Cross provides Netflix on a little screen for entertainment. But, since you can’t move your arms, whatever you pick, you’re stuck with it. …
“Wear Pants to Church” Sunday Brings Attention to Women’s Issues At a time when LDS leaders affirm that God created men and women with “complementary relationships and functions” (Ensign, Oct 2004, 84), a new wave of Mormon feminists seem ready to challenge LDS traditions and policies that they interpret as signs of institutional inequality. …
By Joseph Geisner Or right-click to download the audio file here: “Very Careless in His Utterances”: Editing, Correcting, and Censoring Conference Addresses At the Sunday morning session of the 3 October 2010 General Conference, President Boyd K. Packer gave a talk titled, “Cleansing the Inner Vessel.” However, the talk as published at …
Continued from Part I On 6 April 1947, newly sustained Church patriarch Eldred G. Smith began his first conference address by saying: “Brethren and sisters, I think you are all aware of the fact of the hereditary nature of the office to which I have been called. For that reason I was prepared to …
