To the Sound of Guns: LDS Apostle on Civil Rights
Dallin H. Oaks, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave an address on religious freedom yesterday at Brigham Young University – Idaho. One of his remarks attracted wide media attention because he compared voter-intimidation of African-Americans during the civil rights movement in the South with the harassment some LDS church members experienced following a … Read more
a poor wayfaring man of grief
“A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” was the favorite hymn of Joseph Smith, Jr. The hymn was introduced to the LDS movement by Apostle John Taylor, who learned the hymn in 1840 as a missionary in England. On the afternoon that Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in prison in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844 (165 years ago) the Smiths had … Read more
