by Dan Wees | Sep 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Church warns its members against symposia and other similar gatherings that include presentations that (1) disparage, ridicule, make light of, or are otherwise inappropriate in their treatment of sacred matters or (2) could injure the Church, detract from its...
by Dan Wees | Sep 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“If you visit the East Wing of the Church Office Building you will find in the hallway a gallery of portraits. These are the Church Historians, from Oliver Cowdery to G. Homer Durham. But where is Leonard Arrington? Nowhere to be seen. The official explanation is that...
by Dan Wees | Sep 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Eugene England and Lowell Bennion were not permitted to publish with Deseret Book or Bookcraft by direct intervention of two members of the Twelve. Carol Lynn Pearson was blacklisted from church publications until she was able ‘through prayers and tears’...
by Dan Wees | Sep 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The [Mormon] religion does allow individuals to hold differing interpretations of the Book of Mormon. But once you begin to publish and your interpretation differs from not only the Book of Mormon but doctrinal positions generally, then you are flirting with...
by Dan Wees | Sep 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There are limits to Mormon sociability. In 1993 the church capped a harsh campaign of intellectual purification against dozens of feminists and dissidents with the excommunication of D. Michael Quinn, a leading historian whose painstaking work documented Smith’s...
by Dan Wees | Sep 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There are the so-called learned people who have let their intellect undermine their spiritual moorings and who would also attempt to lead the faithful away from those who are appointed by the Lord to lead. There are those who feel that our leaders are out of touch...
