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Welcome Back! the Tabernacle Choir Returns to Temple Square
Right-click and select “Change Picture… from the menu. Select Press Release your image and then delete this text. Welcome Back! The Tabernacle Choir Returns to Temple Square SALT LAKE CITY – The Tabernacle Choir organization is thrilled to announce the schedule for the return to Temple Square of daily organ recitals, weekly Choir and Bell ensemble rehearsals and Music & the Spoken Word broadcasts. For over 150 years the Salt Lake Tabernacle—and since 2000, the Conference Center—have been the Temple Square locations for live events for music lovers and visitors from around the world. In March 2020, the pandemic temporarily halted all events on Temple Square and around the world. Members of The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square have been waiting with hopeful anticipation for the time when they would again be able return to perform together. As musicians they each strive to express their faith through their performances to help people feel closer to the divine and celebrate God’s love for all His children everywhere. Daily Organ Recitals on Temple Square: The daily organ recitals, a century-long tradition, will resume on Monday, July 19 and will be open to the public in the Tabernacle (Mon – Sat at 12 p.m. MT; and Sun at 2 p.m. MT). The new Temple Square organ tradition Piping Up! Organ Concerts on Temple Square stream will continue to stream every Wednesday at 12:00 noon on The Tabernacle Choir’s YouTube, Facebook, and website home page, and on Broadcasts.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Phased Opening of Choir, Orchestra and Bells Events The Tabernacle Choir will begin rehearsals at the end of August; Bells at Temple Square a week later. -
The LDS Church and Public Engagement
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Asbury Theological Seminary The LDS Church and Public Engagement: Polemics, Marginalization, Accomodation, and Transformation Dr. Roland E. Bartholomew DOI: 10.7252/Paper. 0000 44 | The LDS Church and Public Engagement: Te history of the public engagement of Te Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the “Mormons”) is a study of their political, social, and theological shift from polemics, with the associated religious persecution and marginalization, to adjustments and accommodations that have rendered periods of dramatically favorable results. In two generations Mormonism went from being the “ultimate outcast”—its members being literally driven from the borders of the U.S. and persecuted abroad—to becoming the “embodiment of the mainstream” with members fguring prominently in government and business circles nationally and internationally; what one noted journalist has deemed “a breathtaking transformation.”1 I will argue that necessary accommodations made in Church orthodoxy and orthopraxy were not only behind the political, social, and theological “mainstream,” but also consistently outlasted their “acceptability,” as the rapidly changing world’s values outpaced these changes in Mormonism. 1830-1889: MARGINALIZATION Te frst known public engagement regarding Mormonism was when the young Joseph Smith related details regarding what has become known as his 1820 “First Vision” of the Father and the Son. He would later report that “my telling the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution.”2 It may seem strange that Joseph Smith should be so criticized when, in the intense revivalistic atmosphere of the time, many people claimed to have received personal spiritual manifestations, including visions. -
The Secret Mormon Meetings of 1922
University of Nevada, Reno THE SECRET MORMON MEETINGS OF 1922 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History By Shannon Caldwell Montez C. Elizabeth Raymond, Ph.D. / Thesis Advisor December 2019 Copyright by Shannon Caldwell Montez 2019 All Rights Reserved UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL We recommend that the thesis prepared under our supervision by SHANNON CALDWELL MONTEZ entitled The Secret Mormon Meetings of 1922 be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS C. Elizabeth Raymond, Ph.D., Advisor Cameron B. Strang, Ph.D., Committee Member Greta E. de Jong, Ph.D., Committee Member Erin E. Stiles, Ph.D., Graduate School Representative David W. Zeh, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School December 2019 i Abstract B. H. Roberts presented information to the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in January of 1922 that fundamentally challenged the entire premise of their religious beliefs. New research shows that in addition to church leadership, this information was also presented during the neXt few months to a select group of highly educated Mormon men and women outside of church hierarchy. This group represented many aspects of Mormon belief, different areas of eXpertise, and varying approaches to dealing with challenging information. Their stories create a beautiful tapestry of Mormon life in the transition years from polygamy, frontier life, and resistance to statehood, assimilation, and respectability. A study of the people involved illuminates an important, overlooked, underappreciated, and eXciting period of Mormon history. -
The Mormons Are Coming- the LDS Church's
102 Mormon Historical Studies Nauvoo, Johann Schroder, oil on tin, 1859. Esplin: The Mormons are Coming 103 The Mormons Are Coming: The LDS Church’s Twentieth Century Return to Nauvoo Scott C. Esplin Traveling along Illinois’ scenic Highway 96, the modern visitor to Nauvoo steps back in time. Horse-drawn carriages pass a bustling blacksmith shop and brick furnace. Tourists stroll through manicured gardens, venturing into open doorways where missionary guides recreate life in a religious city on a bend in the Mississippi River during the mid-1840s. The picture is one of prosper- ity, presided over by a stately temple monument on a bluff overlooking the community. Within minutes, if they didn’t know it already, visitors to the area quickly learn about the Latter-day Saint founding of the City of Joseph. While portraying an image of peace, students of the history of Nauvoo know a different tale, however. Unlike other historically recreated villages across the country, this one has a dark past. For the most part, the homes, and most important the temple itself, did not peacefully pass from builder to pres- ent occupant, patiently awaiting renovation and restoration. Rather, they lay abandoned, persisting only in the memory of a people who left them in search of safety in a high mountain desert more than thirteen hundred miles away. Firmly established in the tops of the mountains, their posterity returned more than a century later to create a monument to their ancestral roots. Much of the present-day religious, political, economic, and social power of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its roots to Nauvoo, Illinois. -
The Mormon Trail
Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU All USU Press Publications USU Press 2006 The Mormon Trail William E. Hill Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Hill, W. E. (1996). The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and today. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USU Press at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All USU Press Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE MORMON TRAIL Yesterday and Today Number: 223 Orig: 26.5 x 38.5 Crop: 26.5 x 36 Scale: 100% Final: 26.5 x 36 BRIGHAM YOUNG—From Piercy’s Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Brigham Young was one of the early converts to helped to organize the exodus from Nauvoo in Mormonism who joined in 1832. He moved to 1846, led the first Mormon pioneers from Win- Kirtland, was a member of Zion’s Camp in ter Quarters to Salt Lake in 1847, and again led 1834, and became a member of the first Quo- the 1848 migration. He was sustained as the sec- rum of Twelve Apostles in 1835. He served as a ond president of the Mormon Church in 1847, missionary to England. After the death of became the territorial governor of Utah in 1850, Joseph Smith in 1844, he was the senior apostle and continued to lead the Mormon Church and became leader of the Mormon Church. -
The Salt Lake Tabernacle: a Witness to the Growth of God’S Kingdom
Chapter 5 The Salt Lake Tabernacle: A Witness to the Growth of God’s Kingdom Scott C. Esplin “ n great deeds something abides,” reminisced Joshua Lawrence IChamberlain, a famed Civil War colonel. “On great fields some- thing stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”1 For Latter-day Saints, the historic Salt Lake Tabernacle has become one of those sacred sites—a consecrated hall where “something abides” and “spirits linger” and where modern visitors are wrapped in “the shadow of a mighty presence” while visions of the Restoration “pass into their souls.” President Gordon B. Hinckley summarized the influence the Scott C. Esplin is an assistant professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. 69 Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared Tabernacle has had on the Church: “The Spirit of the Lord has been in this structure. It is sacred unto us.”2 With the construction of larger and more modern conference halls, the Salt Lake Tabernacle stands today as a silent witness to its pioneer past. Having undergone significant transformations throughout its life, the building serves not only as a monument to pioneer greatness but also as an example of changes in the Church’s history. -
Editor's Introduction: in the Land of the Lotus-Eaters
Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 Volume 10 Number 1 Article 2 1998 Editor's Introduction: In the Land of the Lotus-Eaters Daniel C. Peterson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Peterson, Daniel C. (1998) "Editor's Introduction: In the Land of the Lotus-Eaters," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011: Vol. 10 : No. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr/vol10/iss1/2 This Front Matter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Title Editor’s Introduction: In the Land of the Lotus-Eaters Author(s) Daniel C. Peterson Reference FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): v–xxvi. ISSN 1099-9450 (print), 2168-3123 (online) Abstract Introduction to the current issue, including editor’s picks. Peterson explores the world of anti-Mormon writing and fiction. Editor's Introduction: In the Land of the Lotus-Eaters Daniel C. Peterson We are the persecuted children of God-the chosen of the Angel Merona .... We are of those who believe in those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters on plates of beaten gold, which were handed unto the holy Joseph Smith at Palmyra. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarletl For years, I have marveled at the luxuriant, even rank, growth that is anti-Mormonism. -
Printable Bike
c ycle The ciTy c ycle The ciTy DeStInAtIonS DeStInAtIonS CYCLE THE About the Route: Cycle the City is suit- SLC Main Library: An able for bicyclists who are generally comfortable riding 7 architectural gem designed by on urban streets with bike lanes. the route mostly uses world-renowned architecture firm bike lanes and paths, on fairly flat terrain, with one long, Moshe Safdie and Associates, the CITY gradual hill up lower City Creek Canyon. Library has five floors and over a half-million books. Shops on the Pioneer Park: t he starting point to our route, main floor offer a variety of services, 1 Pioneer Park is the former site of the old Pioneer Fort, such as food, coffee, artwork and a florist. erected the week the first Mormon pioneers arrived in Salt Lake in 1847. today it is home to the twilight t he Leonardo: t his contem- Concert Series, Saturday Farmers’ Market, and many 8 porary museum of art, science and more community activities. technology is named after Leonardo DaVinci. the Leonardo features Temple Square: Situated in one-of-a-kind interactive exhibits, 2 the heart of downtown, temple Square programs, workshops and classes. features the temple, exquisite gardens, tabernacle, and the world headquar- Liberty Park: A classic urban ters of the Church of Jesus Christ of 9 park with a central tree-lined prome- Latter-day Saints. Please dismount and nade, Liberty Park features a walk- walk your bicycle through the Square. ing/biking loop path that you will sample on this ride. Memory Grove: this beauti- t racy Aviary: Located in a tranquil, wooded 3 ful park features several memorials to utah’s veterans, a replica of the 10 setting within Liberty Park, the Aviary is one of the Liberty bell, and hiking trails through a largest in the country: home to over 100 species of botanical garden. -
Journal of Mormon History Vol. 22, No. 1, 1996
Journal of Mormon History Volume 22 Issue 1 Article 1 1996 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 22, No. 1, 1996 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1996) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 22, No. 1, 1996," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 22 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol22/iss1/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 22, No. 1, 1996 Table of Contents CONTENTS ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS • --The Emergence of Mormon Power since 1945 Mario S. De Pillis, 1 TANNER LECTURE • --The Mormon Nation and the American Empire D. W. Meinig, 33 • --Labor and the Construction of the Logan Temple, 1877-84 Noel A. Carmack, 52 • --From Men to Boys: LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996 William G. Hartley, 80 • --Ernest L. Wilkinson and the Office of Church Commissioner of Education Gary James Bergera, 137 • --Fanny Alger Smith Custer: Mormonism's First Plural Wife? Todd Compton, 174 REVIEWS --James B. Allen, Jessie L. Embry, Kahlile B. Mehr. Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994 Raymonds. Wright, 208 --S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard H.Jackson, eds. Historical Atlas of Mormonism Lowell C. "Ben"Bennion, 212 --Spencer J. Palmer and Shirley H. -
Lehi Historic Archive File Categories Achievements of Lehi Citizens
Lehi Historic Archive File Categories Achievements of Lehi Citizens AdobeLehi Plant Airplane Flights in Lehi Alex ChristoffersonChampion Wrestler Alex Loveridge Home All About Food and Fuel/Sinclair Allred Park Alma Peterson Construction/Kent Peterson Alpine Fireplaces Alpine School BoardThomas Powers Alpine School District Alpine Soil/Water Conservation District Alpine Stake Alpine Stake Tabernacle Alpine, Utah American Dream Labs American Football LeagueDick Felt (Titans/Patriots) American Fork Canyon American Fork Canyon Flour Mill American Fork Canyon Mining District American Fork Canyon Power Plant American Fork Cooperative Institution American Fork Hospital American Fork, Utah American Fork, UtahMayors American Fork, UtahSteel Days American Legion/Veterans American Legion/VeteransBoys State American Patriotic League American Red Cross Ancient Order of United Workmen (AOUW) Ancient Utah Fossils and Rock Art Andrew Fjeld Animal Life of Utah Annie Oakley Antiquities Act Arcade Dance Hall Arches National Park Arctic Circle Ashley and Virlie Nelson Home (153 West 200 North) Assembly Hall Athenian Club Auctus Club Aunt Libby’s Dog Cemetery Austin Brothers Companies AuthorFred Hardy AuthorJohn Rockwell, Historian AuthorKay Cox AuthorLinda Bethers: Christmas Orange AuthorLinda JefferiesPoet AuthorReg Christensen AuthorRichard Van Wagoner Auto Repair Shop2005 North Railroad Street Azer Southwick Home 90 South Center B&K Auto Parts Bank of American Fork Bates Service Station Bathhouses in Utah Beal Meat Packing Plant Bear -
Resolutions Approved by Conference
Resolutions Approved by Conference Joint Conference of Restoration Branches Independence, Missouri This is a compilation of resolutions from November 2005 through April 2019. These resolutions are intended to be in harmony with the governmental law of the Restored Church established by Joseph Smith Jr. and the Reorganized Church by Joseph Smith III. These resolutions are predicated on the Inspired Version of the Bible, The Book of Mormon and the latter day revelations of Joseph Smith rJ . and Joseph Smith III as found in the Doctrine and Covenants and includes any subsequent revelations in harmony there- with. Doctrine and Covenants 85:9b-10a “And unto every kingdom is given a law; and unto every law there are certain bounds also, and conditions. All beings who abide not in those conditions, are not justified; for intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light.” Resolutions that are currently operative are included in the first section. An appendix includes resolutions where the action for the conference has been concluded or where the original resolution has been superceded by a fol- lowing resolultion. Also included is an appendix for the current corporate articles of incorporation and by- laws. Revision 4/23/2019 1 JCR#129 Request for Consideration of Ordinations .........31 ...................................................................................................50 Table of Contents JCR#130 Support of Youth Rally ..........................................31 -
Statement to the Branches
Dear Independent Restoration Branch Members and Priesthood, There has been much confusion and misrepresentation concerning the purpose of the Conference of Restoration, and its intent to organize the church. To be clear, the CRE’s purpose and intent is not to organize or reorganize the church. While some leaders in the CRE in the past have made movements towards this, it has been consistently rejected by the elders meeting in conference. The overall purpose of the CRE established in 1993 remains the same today; To bring solidarity to a growing number of Restoration Branches--and Latter Day Saints in general--during this period of disruption and fragmentation. (Source: Conference “Operating Guidelines” accepted 1996) The scope of this purpose is focused on offering ministry and support to any and all restoration branches and saints within the restoration branch movement that desire that support. The Conference is not the Church, but a gathering of the Melchisedec Priesthood to share in testimony, prayer, legislation, and preparation to return to our branches better equipped and unified to perform our duties to minister to our brothers and sisters in Christ. Without going into detail, there is growing evidence that the Restoration Branch movement within the US is experiencing loss of branches and members through attrition, fractions and other factors. It is in a general decline in terms of its effectiveness to offer ministry within, and out of the Church. While there is no question that God is in control and will accomplish the purposes of His church, the question remains, are we doing all we can to assist with the work? As such, the coming together of a significant number of the Restoration branches for the purpose of conferring with one another to seek God’s guidance on how to become more unified and engage with each other to assist with the work, is needed, and is something the CRE would support.