AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager’s diary, has died, the Anne Frank House museum said Tuesday. She was 100. Gies died from a neck injury sustained in a fall at her home shortly before [...]
PRINCETON, NJ — Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, are the most conservative major religious group in the country, with 59% identifying as conservative, 31% as moderate, and 8% as liberal. The ideological leanings of Mormons have become of greater interest in recent years as a result of Mormon [...]
Title: Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon Author: Mari Grana Publisher: Two Dot, a division of the Globe Pequot Press Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 179 Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-7627-5272-0 Price: $16.95 Check Availability, Click Here Reviewed by Lisa Tait Martha Hughes Cannon has long been known to [...]
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Title: The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books Editors: Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, Steven C. Harper Publisher: The Church Historian’s Press Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 752 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1570088500 ISBN-13: 97 8-1570088506 Price: $99.95 Reviewed by Trevor Holyoak This is the second book to be [...]
Title: The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction Author: Terryl L. Givens Publisher: Oxford University Press Genre: Religion Year: 2009 Pages: 140 ISBN10: 9780195369311 ISBN13: 9780195369311 Price: $11.95 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges As my wife and I were finishing up some Christmas shopping she casually mentioned the music store where she was employed [...]
As a result of the deforestation of the Amazon basin, a startling discovery has been made. Hidden from view for centuries, the vast archaeological remains of an unknown, ancient civilization have been found. A study published in Antiquity, a British archaeological journal, details how satellite imagery was used to discern the footprint of the buildings [...]
Personal revelation: One night while laying in bed, LDS playwright Mahorni Stewart experienced a manifestation or “a rush of thoughts and feelings” that helped him both produce his new play, “Manifest,” as well as better understand “Personal Revelation and Art.” He explains: “Those deeply beautiful moments of light ought not to be ignored either. When [...]
Social networks are places on the Internet where like-mined people go to converse, share pictures, talk about what is going on in their lives, and just virtually “hang out”. Many members are making use of these sites – as evidenced by an experiment on one of the most popular social networking sites, Facebook. In March [...]
MARTINSBURG -The story of the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, and its often overlooked connections to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that would thrust a young preacher onto the world stage was recalled Sunday during the 32nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
