Sunday, September 23, 2018

Is it DeMille, Spielberg or Jackson who wants to direct a movie on Alma?

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A lifetime of activity in the LDS Church provides more than just an average knowledge with “The Pearl of Great Price.” You become very ...
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, September 9, 2018

Rags, rags, rags, we need rags! the Deseret News pleaded to early Saints

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Few accounts of the Mormon Church in 1850s Utah tell us about “rag missions” but they were an important calling, and no less than Brigh...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

LDS retrenchment and why Ezra Taft Benson wanted to be George Wallace’s VP pick

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In Matthew Bowman’s book “ The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith, ” the Mormon business/educational strategy of correlatio...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Early Mormon Lyman Royal Sherman died without ever knowing he was called to be an apostle

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A lot of men have been called to be LDS apostles since Joseph Smith’s time. Today, an announcement of a new apostle is big news. In the...
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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Friday, August 10, 2018

LDS writer Carter’s essays exploit the tension between right and wrong

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There’s a furtive thrill in reading honest Mormon writing because we encounter characters, or better yet, real people — who aren’t clic...