Mormon History and Culture

  A friend loaned me a book published in 1956,  "Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons,"  by Austin and Alta Fife,...

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

  ---- ( Originally published on April 22, 2011 . I am rescuing from archive oblivion this great Cal Grondahl cartoon that went with origina...

--- A couple of times a year, usually on a Sunday after church, I re-read C.S. Lewis’ marvelous post-mortal novella/fable “ The Great Divorc...

  I n contrast to the Mormon Church’s bitter rejection at the 1893 Chicago Parliament of Religions, the territory of Utah was warmly receive...

  -- This blog post was originally published in January 2011 on the now-defunct StandardBlogs . To my knowledge there are still many investe...

  --      Most of the world associates the actor Jimmy Stewart and Christmas with the marvelous Frank Capra film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”  ...

  Wrote this nearly 10 years ago on SE blog. Rescued it from Wayback purgatory . I think the LDS Church has made very positive strides in en...

  Originally published in 2013 at StandardBlogs . In the 19th century, Utah’s polygamy was often described as one of the twin barbarisms of ...

W e Mormons have a name for hell — it’s called Sons of Perdition. We’re pretty confident that Satan, Cain and Judas will be residents there,...