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| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Your Patriarchal Blessing [booklet] Brad Wilcox, 2021-07-26 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , 2007 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Binding Earth and Heaven Gary Shepherd, Gordon Shepherd, 2015-06-13 In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition. Initial scorn and contempt for Mormonism—the fledgling creation of the young Joseph Smith—quickly elevated to mob violence as both Smith’s innovative teachings and converted followers proliferated, resulting in the widely held perception that the Mormons constituted a social menace. This book examines how Mormonism attracted and maintained the loyalty of increasing numbers of people despite mounting hostilities and severe hardships. The book focuses on the unique Mormon ritual (and accompanying doctrinal underpinnings) of “patriarchal blessings.” Patriarchal blessings were an innovative adaptation of the Old Testament practice of fathers making quasi-legal pronouncements over the heads of their sons—a way of verbally conferring rights, promises, admonition, and guidance to heirs. Binding Earth and Heaven shows how the organizational complexities of this practice contributed to strengthening and sustaining member faith and fealty, thereby bolstering the continuity and development of Mormonism. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: (Black and White) Thoughts, Theories, and Impressions of Jane Caldwell Waite Dunn Kelsey, Karen Lindberg Rasmussen, Paula Lindberg Paradise, Karen Paradise Baranowski, 2013-09-11 This documented narrative tells the story of Jane Caldwell born 27 March 1808/1809. It also provides biographical sketches of her parents, spouses, siblings, and children. Jane was born in Sandy Lake township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842 and later moved to Utah. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Women of Nauvoo Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, 1992 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Matthias F. Cowley, 1909 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Your Sister in the Gospel Quincy D. Newell, 2019-04-05 Dear Brother, Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have begun for my dead.... Your sister in the Gospel, Jane E. James. A faithful Latter-day Saint since her conversion sixty years earlier, James had made this request several times before, to no avail, and this time she would be just as unsuccessful, even though most Latter-day Saints were allowed to participate in the endowment ritual in the temple as a matter of course. James, unlike most Mormons, was black. For that reason, she was barred from performing the temple rituals that Latter-day Saints believe are necessary to reach the highest degrees of glory after death. A free black woman from Connecticut, James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision. After her conversion, she traveled with her family and other converts from the region to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the LDS church was then based. There, she took a job as a servant in the home of Joseph Smith, the founder and first prophet of the LDS church. When Smith was killed in 1844, Jane found employment as a servant in Brigham Young's home. These positions placed Jane in proximity to Mormonism's most powerful figures, but did not protect her from the church's racially discriminatory policies. Nevertheless, she remained a faithful member until her death in 1908. Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Man Behind the Discourse Joann Follett Mortensen, 2011-12-05 Who was King Follett? When he was fatally injured digging a well in Nauvoo in March 1844, why did Joseph Smith use his death to deliver the monumental doctrinal sermon now known as the King Follett Discourse? Much has been written about the sermon, but little about King. Although King left no personal writings, Joann Follett Mortensen, King’s third great-granddaughter, draws on more than thirty years of research in civic and Church records and in the journals and letters of King’s peers to piece together King’s story from his birth in New Hampshire and moves westward where, in Ohio, he and his wife, Louisa, made the life-shifting decision to accept the new Mormon religion. From that point, this humble, hospitable, and hardworking family followed the Church into Missouri where their devotion to Joseph Smith was refined and burnished. King was the last Mormon prisoner in Missouri to be released from jail. According to family lore, King was one of the Prophet’s bodyguards. He was also a Danite, a Mason, and an officer in the Nauvoo Legion. After his death, Louisa and their children settled in Iowa where some associated with the Cutlerities and the RLDS Church; others moved on to California. One son joined the Mormon Battalion and helped found Mormon communities in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. While King would have died virtually unknown had his name not been attached to the discourse, his life story reflects the reality of all those whose faith became the foundation for a new religion. His biography is more than one man’s life story. It is the history of the early Restoration itself. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, Volume 3 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2022-04-22 After decades of opposition, the Latter-day Saints have dedicated the Salt Lake Temple, a mighty symbol of their industry and faith. Now, with a new century on the horizon, the Saints are optimistic about the future and ready to spread the Savior’s message of peace across the globe. But the world is rapidly changing. Advances in transportation and communication allow people and information to cross vast distances in record time. And young people are venturing far from home as never before, seeking educational and professional opportunities their parents and grandparents could hardly imagine. As the Church begins to take root in Europe, South America, and Asia, the Saints rejoice in the rise of the global Church. Yet many are wary of the challenges the changing world poses to the cause of Zion. While the promise of the new century is bright, it comes with dire economic hardships, brutal global wars, and other unprecedented trials. Boldly, Nobly, and Independent is the third book in Saints, a new, four-volume narrative history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fast-paced, meticulously researched, and written under the direction of the First Presidency, Saints recounts true stories of Latter-day Saints across the globe and answers the Lord’s call to write a history “for the good of the Church, and for the rising generations” (Doctrine and Covenants 69:8). |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources Kip Sperry, 2011-01-01 Never before has the wide array of Mormon family history sources been gathered into one comprehensive and easy-to-use guide. In A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources, author, professor, and lecturer Kip Sperry explains electronic databases, websites, microfilm collections, indexed, and more, all relating to the Latter-day Saint family history. Whether you are taking your first step into your Latter-day Saint ancestry, your fiftieth, or your five-hundredth, A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources will lead you to something new. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: (Color) Thoughts, Theories, and Impressions of Jane Caldwell Waite Dunn Kelsey Karen Lindberg Rasmussen, Paula Lindberg Paradise, Karen Paradise Baranowski, 2013-09-11 This FULL COLOR documented narrative tells the story of Jane Caldwell born 27 March 1808/1809. It also provides biographical sketches of her parents, spouses, siblings, and children. Jane was born in Sandy Lake township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842 and later moved to Utah. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Growing Up Brad Wilcox, 2000 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Joseph Smith Susan Easton Black, 2004-10 The gripping narration of a life fore-ordained for greatness coupled with breathtaking photographs make Joseph Smith, Praise to the Man and extraordinary book. Enjoy a visual look into the Prophet's humble beginnings. Bask in the serenity of the sacred in New York, learn of revelations in Ohio, and witness the heartache of Missori. See the grandeur of restored Nauvoo and sense the pathos of Carthage. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Smith, Maurine Jensen Proctor, 1996 From the original Preliminary Manuscript dictated by Lucy Smith to her scribe, Martha Coray. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Jane Caldwell Waite Dunn Kelsey, 27 March 1808/09 - 27 September 1891, A Chronological History Karen Lindberg Rasmussen, Paula Lindberg Paradise, Karen Paradise Baranowski, 2013-08-27 Jane Caldwell, daughter of Joseph Caldwell and Mary Bennett, was born in 1808 or 1809 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania or Steubenville, Ohio. She married John Waite in about 1830. They had seven children. She married Eli Brazee Kelsey. She died in 1891 in Bountiful, Utah. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Mary Oldfield, 1791-1875, Tooele, Utah Pioneer Karen Lindberg Rasmussen, Paula Lindberg Paradise, Karen Paradise Baranowski, 2012-12-11 This book contains a narrative history of the life of Mary Oldfield, born 28 June 1791 in Minisink, Orange County, New York. After her family moved to western New York, Mary married Eli Kelsey. They raised a family of six children. Following her first husband's death, Mary joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She joined the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois and later crossed the plains to Utah Territory where she was one of the first settlers of Tooele, Utah. Following the narrative history of Mary Oldfield's life is a color coded chronological time line including events that involved Mary and her family members. The time line provides valuable documentation of Mary's life as well as brings to life the complex interactions on her family. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Martin Harris Story Madge Harris Tuckett, Belle Harris Wilson, 1983 Family history and biographies of Martin Harris, Sr. (1783-1875); his older brother, Emer Harris (1781-1869); and Emer's son, Dennison Lott Harris (1825-1885). Martin Harris, Sr. had significant influence on the early development of the LDS or Mormon Church, and earlier had served in the U.S. army during the War of 1812. All are descendants of Thomas Harris, who married Elizabeth Leatherland and immigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts, later moving to Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere. Mormon descendants moved to Utah and elsewhere. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: 65 Questions and Answers about Patriarchal Blessings Alonzo L. Gaskill, 2018-02 One of the remarkable miracles of our day is the opportunity to receive a patriarchal blessing. Using a firm foundation in the scriptures and the writings of Church leaders, Alonzo Gaskill provides answers to questions surrounding all aspects of receiving a patriarchal blessing, addressing topics pertaining to how to prepare for your blessing, what happens during your blessing, and what to do with your blessing once you received it.-- |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Utah Gazatteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884 Robert W. Sloan, 1884 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Life of Heber C. Kimball Orson Ferguson Whitney, 1888 Heber Chase Kimball was born 14 June 1801 at Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont. He died 22 June 1868 in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Emancipation's Daughters Riché Richardson, 2020-11-23 Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: One Side By Himself Ronald Barney, 2001 What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his family. Ron Barney's detailed biography of Lewis Barney provides a participant's view of Mormonism's first six decades of controversy, hardship, and triumph, viewed from the bottom of the social heap. Despite his wide-ranging experience and endless sacrifices, Lewis Barney was a worker in the Mormon vineyard, not one of the princes of the Kingdom of God whose lives have been so exhaustively celebrated. Barney's lack of status in this complex hierarchy adds tremendously to the value of this study, since so much nineteenth-century LDS biography has ignored the lives of ordinary people to celebrate a surprisingly small elite whose experiences were far different from those of the general Mormon population. —Will Bagley, editor of the series Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier and editor of The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming Dallin D. Oaks, Paul Baltes, Kent Minson, 2023-03-01 Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming approaches cultural, historical, and doctrinal dimensions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through a fresh lens that explores how these dimensions intersect with names and naming. Featuring a collection of chapters from multiple authors, its bipartite structure examines fascinating topics in relation to the Church, looking first at cultural and historical perspectives before analyzing doctrinal and scriptural perspectives. The book discusses such matters as how contemporary naming practices of Latter-day Saints compare to those outside the faith, how code names were used in one of the faith’s books of scripture to protect Church leaders from persecution, and how names and naming relate to the covenant identity of Church members. Through its fresh approach to understanding religious identity and belief in relation to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Mormon studies and will also be of interest to people with a fascination with names and naming issues as those occur in a variety of settings, including religious ones. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Old Testament Explained Dan Barker, 2022-12-23 Don't let the Old Testament intimidate you! Modern revelation has provided the tools we need to understand and apply this timeless scripture. By citing prophetic revelation, Dan Barker helps you reach past strange customs and difficult descriptions to feel the power of the promises in the Old Testament. This indispensible study guide will change the way you feel about this important book of scripture. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism Zillah R. Eisenstein, 2019-06-01 Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist countries, Cuba and China. These important, often path-breaking articles are arranged in five basic sections, the titles of which indicate the broad range of issues being considered: Introduction; motherhood, reproduction, and male supremacy; socialist feminist historical analysis; patriarchy in revolutionary society; socialist feminism in the United States. The underlying thrust of the book is toward integrating the central ideas of radical feminist thought with those pivotal for Marxist or socialist class analysis. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Continuous Conversion Brad Wilcox, 2013 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: United by Faith , 2005 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: William B. Smith Kyle R. Walker, 2015-06-04 2016 Best Biography Award, John Whitmer Historical Association Younger brother of Joseph Smith, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Church Patriarch for a time, William Smith had tumultuous yet devoted relationships with Joseph, his fellow members of the Twelve, and the LDS and RLDS (Community of Christ) churches. Walker's imposing biography examines not only William's complex life in detail, but also sheds additional light on the family dynamics of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, as well as the turbulent intersections between the LDS and RLDS churches. William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet is a vital contribution to Mormon history in both the LDS and RLDS traditions. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Converted Alonzo L. Gaskill, 2017 Each conversion story is as unique as the individual who has converted. These fifteen stories of conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from various religious backgrounds testify of the joy available through embracing the restored gospel, and provide a new perspective on faith. -- |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Family of John Birch & Ann Craven in the Nineteenth Century Wendel K. Walton, 2008 John Birch, son of Edward Birch (d. 1793) and Elizabeth Hanley, was born in 1775 in Bareland Radnorshire, Wales. He married Ann Craven (1778-1846), daughter of Samuel Craven and Judith Stephens, in 1803 in Worcester, England. They had nine children. He died in 1852 in Herefordshire, England. Ann immigrated to America with three of her children in 1841. She died in 1846 in Sugar Creek, Iowa. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Wales and Utah. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies Davis Bitton, 1977 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Mormon Redress Petitions Clark V. Johnson, 1992 Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began settling in Missouri in 1831. The original place of settlement was Jackson County, on the western border of the state. As early as 1832 trouble arose between the Mormons and their Missouri neighbors. In 1833 mobs drove the Mormons from Jackson County and into the neighboring counties of Clay and Ray and further north into what eventually became Caldwell and Davies Counties. The Mormons again built communities and planted crops. By 1836, mobs again began to molest the Mormon communities. The Mormons living in the counties of Ray and Clay were again forced to flee their homes and joined other members of the Church living in Caldwell and Davies Counties. The respite, however, was short lived as persecution and mob violence came to a head in the summer and fall of 1838. Joseph Smith and other Mormon leaders were placed in Liberty Jail while the body of the Church was forced to flee the state to Iowa Territory and the State of Illinois. As early as 1839 members of the Church who had been forced to flee Missouri began preparing affidavits and petitioning for compensation for their losses and suffering at the hands of the Missourians. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Continuous Atonement Brad Wilcox, 2013-03-07 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Bodies That Matter Judith Butler, 2014-09-03 In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most material dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of performativity introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of performativity and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Changed Through His Grace Brad Wilcox, 2017 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman Sarah Hopkins Bradford, 1869 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman: By SARAH H. BRADFORD. [Special Illustrated Edition] |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Writings of Oliver Olney Richard G. Moore, 2020-06-09 Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri. In Nauvoo, Olney became disgruntled with church leadership and viewed Joseph Smith as a fallen prophet. His writings, consisting of journal entries, letters, and booklets, express his concerns about what he viewed as serious iniquity within the Church. Despite his opposition to church leadership resulting in his excommunication, Olney remained in Nauvoo and wrote about the things he witnessed. The handwritten papers of Oliver Olney are housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and are made available in published form for the first time. They offer historical researchers and interested readers of the early Latter-day Saint movement a unique glimpse from the margins of religious society in Nauvoo. Olney’s writings add light to key events in early Mormonism such as rumors of polygamy, the influence of Free Masonry in Nauvoo, plans to migrate westward to the Rocky Mountains, as well as growing tensions with disaffected church members and rising conflict with Nauvoo’s non-Mormon neighbors. |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Nauvoo Journal , 1989 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: Anxiously Engaged Joseph Walker, Susan Easton Black, 2021-09-06 |
| susan easton black patriarchal blessing: The Prophet Joseph Larry C. Porter, Susan Easton Black, 1988 |
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