Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found an application for Brigham Young University, the Mormon school in Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed...
With a $140 monthly tithe to the Mormon Church, I'm not surprised the Hobsons [April 7] went into debt-and they hardly qualify as a typical bankrupt family. What happened to the concept of separation of church and state when a court can allow them to continue this tithe while owing legitimate businesses...
...Finger Lakes region of New York, Spencer Kimball, 85, president of the Mormon Church, joined 400 worshipers in the tiny town of Fayette (pop. 250). There they dedicated an exact replica of the rude cabin where, 150 years ago last week, Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. and six followers founded a new church...
...practice of polygamy was also at issue. Young claimed that Smith, following private revelations, both preached and practiced polygamy. Smith's widow pointed out that her husband's Book of Mormon denounced plural marriage. The Reorganized Church has always been against the practice, though most historians believe Smith secretly took between 27 and 50 wives, including some women married to other...
Despite the common heritage, the Reorganized Saints say they are not Mormons. Wallace B. Smith, 51, the fifth direct descendant of the prophet to be president, says the Utah Mormons developed "a whole new theology, which is not orthodox Christianity." The basic disagreements are the Mormon beliefs that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate gods with the first two inhabiting human bodies, and that male church members may become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Reorganized Church believes in a spiritual Trinity and denies that men become gods. But the Missouri sect is far from Protestant. Among other things...