On Brigham Young and Violence (1)
Brother Brigham reports a dream during that flight from Nauvoo that gives his true feeling about violence.
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Daniel C. Peterson is a retired professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU), and the president of the Interpreter Foundation.
Breathtaking Audacity
Orson F. Whitney wrote in 1888, "Small things are the seeds of great things, and, like the acorn that brings forth the oak, or the snowflake that forms the avalanche, God’s kingdom will grow."
Money and Prices in the Book of Mormon
The frontier yokel Joe Smith, if he really done made the whole Book of Mormon thang up, done created a surprisingly sophisticated system of currency pretty much on the fly.
Understanding How the Scriptures Came to Be
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling recently made a false claim about the Book of Mormon plates in a tweet. Perhaps someone should send her a link to the Insights videos.
“A continuous melody and a thunderous appeal”
"The sound of the voice of the Lord is a continuous melody and a thunderous appeal." — Spencer W. Kimball
The Prophet Joseph F. Smith
"My darling daughter Edith, wrote Joseph F. Smith, "You asked me if I had ever received a Revelation since I have been the President of the Church."
If I were placed on a cannibal island
“If I were placed on a cannibal island and given a task of civilizing its people,” said Brigham Young, “I should straightway build a theatre.”
A River Ran Over Her (Conclusion)
As the title of this blog post is intended to suggest, the material below is a sequel to an earlier entry that I published here as “A River Ran Over Her.”
Accounting for the past week
Please note that this trip to Newport Beach and environs was entirely at our initiative. No tithe payers were harmed in the production of this vacation.
Don’t I already have trouble enough?
Of the policy of priesthood exclusion, David O. McKay wrote, “I’ve inquired of the Lord repeatedly. The last time I did it was late last night. I was told, with no discussion, not to bring the subject up with the Lord again; that the time will come....”
Brother Brigham
Despite their many disagreements, Brigham Young once made about Elder Orson Pratt: “If Brother Orson were chopped up in inch pieces, each piece would cry out Mormonism was true.”
Hurrah for Excommunication!
The Kingdom of God isn’t an open-ended debating society in which every doctrine is up for grabs, every commandment subject to focus groups and polling and negotiation, every policy a matter to be worked out by means of street demonstrations and town hall meetings.