Showing posts with label Mormon history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mormon history. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2023

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, and the LDS Spirit World

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--- 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...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Utah’s decision to give women the vote was later rescinded by the feds

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  Originally published in 2013 at StandardBlogs . In the 19th century, Utah’s polygamy was often described as one of the twin barbarisms of ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Racism in the Mormon war in Missouri

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Originally published in 2014 at StandardBlogs The Mormons’ deadly conflicts with Missouri residents during the 1830s have been covered...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Fighting Preacher is T.C. Christensen's best film

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This is not really a review. I watched, with great interest, T.C. Christensen's film, "T he Fighting Preacher ," which is t...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Charles Shuster Zane was a fair judge Mormons loved to hate

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Ever heard of Utah territorial Chief Justice Charles Shuster Zane ? He’s one of those fascinating footnotes in history. Appointed in 188...
Friday, August 2, 2019

Mormonism and Dime Novels; pulp fiction and the culture of those times

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Review by Doug Gibson I really enjoy the Mormon-themed book offerings from Greg Kofford Books. They are often edgy, grizzly-bear histor...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Diaries of the ‘cowboy apostle’ Ivins include secret Mormon plural marriages, political intrigue

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On Sept. 12, 1932, Mormon apostle Anthony W. Ivins, first counselor to LDS President Heber J. Grant, made this diary entry. “ On this da...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Did an angel with a drawn sword force Joseph Smith to start polygamy?

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In his biography of Joseph Smith, “ Rough Stone Rolling ,” author Richard Lyman Bushman relates a popular Mormon legend/history regarding...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

90 years ago, book by Davis author served as gift to missionaries from LDS prophet

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More evidence that the bookshelves and basements of Latter-day Saints’ homes provide historical value: I’m holding in my hands a book t...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The temporary, mistaken ban on allowing women to pray in sacrament meeting

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Several years ago, I was listening to a Mormon Stories interview with writer Carol Lynn Pearson when I heard her say that in the 1970...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

John C. Bennett was the Lucifer of early Mormonism

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John Cook Bennett: most Mormons probably know him from LDS Church Almanacs as “assistant president of the LDS Church” for a year or s...