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Several years ago I emailed SMU anthropologist David Freidel to ask him for his reaction to Clark's address. He was reluctant to comment specifically on the address.

The quotation from SWK regarding interracial marriage is also found in the current Eternal Marriage institute manual (copyright 2003) (see p. 169). From 1995: "The probabilities of a successful marriage are known to be much greater if both the husband and wife are united in their religion, lang...

Does the church have an official position on Book of Mormon geography, including the location of the Hill Cumorah1 mentioned in the Book of Mormon? Sincerely yours, William J. Hamblin, Ph.D.2 Defender of the Kingdom of God3 ---------------------- 1 "Because the New York site does not readily fi...

I have been asked by the Editor of the Daily Universe to make some comments on the John Birch Society. It is difficult to believe that anyone at the university--anyone who reads books and thinks--would take such a movement seriously.... The man who wrote The Politician did so to inform his follower...

I recall reading Midgley's reference to Larry Foster as "an idiot." Aggressive, feisty, combative. Vociferous?

I take that as a "yes" response to my question.

The very first time I saw Professor Midgley's rage was at a Grant Palmer book signing at Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore in Salt Lake in which he asked a few questions, was aggressive, and raised a bit of hell with Palmer. I believe that I also spotted him at a Mormon History Association conference sess...

"In the western part of the state of New York near Palmyra is a prominent hill known as the “hill Cumorah.” On July twenty-fifth of this year, as I stood on the crest of that hill admiring with awe the breathtaking panorama which stretched out before me on every hand, my mind reverted to the e...

While we have the complete photocopy of the First Presidency letter for the 1990 statement, we only have this footnote reference for the claimed 1993 correspondence. However, Mr. Peterson claims that these two sentences from the 1993 correspondence constitute the entire letter/communication. This m...

Hello, Tom. The building was to have been erected on private property directly adjacent to BYU that the Maxwell Institute owned back when it was known as FARMS, and prior to its affiliation with BYU. Much has changed since then. The building hasn't been an active project for many years now. My elde...