Sunday, September 1, 2024

Review: Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist

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  Review by Doug Gibson Polygamy sects in more modern times are full of negative reports. Girls being beaten by parents who want to marry mu...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

William Marks biography notes a major figure in early Mormonism often ignored

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  Review by Doug Gibson " Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering ," 2024, Greg Kofford Books, (...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Book explores Mormonism from a Peruvian perspective

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  In 1983, when I was 19, I began my LDS mission in Iquitos, Peru. It's a major city in the Amazon by the river. Early in my tenure ther...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Willard Bean, Mormonism's 'Fighting Preacher,' attracted the attention of the curious press

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   Above is an 1899 news clipping from The Boston Globe. I apologize the text is mostly unreadable. It's a feature, however, on a "...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

On Twitter, a hospice nurse provides observations about our final moments.

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  --- On Twitter, I encountered a fascinating series of observations on death from an unnamed hospice nurse. The Twitter account is from @Ra...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Review: American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor

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  --- Review by Doug Gibson I really enjoy reading fiction by David G. Pace. He often captures the conflict between traditional Mormonism, i...
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Book takes a look at all those spirit visits we Mormons receive

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  Review by Doug Gibson If you are a longtime Mormon like me, you know a healthy amount of the stories out there. There's that missionar...