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,...

  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...

  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...

The second-hardest thing I have ever done is hold my infant son in my arms and watch Ray die. The hardest task for my wife and me were allow...

 --- The early years of the Mormon Church are distinct for its young converts, with 20-something apostles embracing the progressive, radical...

--- 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 wrote this piece almost 13 years ago for the now-defunct StandardBlogs and r escued it from Wayback . I found it interesting, still ...

  I absolutely loved this anthology of Mormon literature in 2009, and since if you look hard and are patient, you can find a reasonably pric...

  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...

  Review by Doug Gibson Harold B. Lee: Life and Thought , by Newell G. Bringhurst, Signature Books, 2022, provided a lot of information abou...

  Review by Doug Gibson John Sillito, professor emeritus of libraries at Weber State University in my home city of Ogden, Utah, has done a r...

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,...

  Originally posted in 2009 at StandardBlogs A couple of years ago my oldest daughter’s accelerated fifth-grade class viewed a film version ...