Monday, March 26, 2018

Apocryphal Hale vision underscores LDS passion for baptism for the dead

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With my faith’s practice of baptism for the dead, in my opinion, so misunderstood, it was interesting that this five-page Heber Q. Hale...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Book of Mormon biography charts its existence, influence

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In “ The Book of Mormon: A Biography ,” (Princeton University Press, 2012) author Paul C. Gutjahr notes that critiques and evaluations ...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

LDS doctrine on gathering of scattered Israel has shifted

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In Sunday School class, there was some debate, and mild concern, when the teacher explained to students that there is not a specific ph...
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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...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Willard Bean, Mormonism’s ‘Fighting Parson,’ did have an admirable pro boxing career

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A lot of Mormon lore has surrounded Willard Bean, a professional boxer  around the turn of the 20th century who, in 1915, was called wi...
Monday, February 12, 2018

The Bishop's Wife tears at facade of normalcy

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“The Bishop’s Wife,” Soho Crime, 2014, ( buy it here ) stands alone as a fine addition to crime fiction. It has a strong main plot, an a...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

After First Manifesto, LDS internal debate over polygamy raged for a generation

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In Official Declaration No. 1, found in the LDS scripture “Doctrine and Covenants,” then-Prophet Wilford W. Woodruff says, “ …  I now pu...