Saturday, November 24, 2018

Sandwich Islands mission diaries of LDS Prophet Joseph F. Smith charts maturity of teen

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In 1855, future LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith, son of the martyr Hyrum Smith, was shipped off from Utah to the Sandwich Islands ...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

In anti-Mormon literature’s ‘golden age,’ even phrenology, or the Mormon skull, was examined

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Terryl L. Givens’ “ The Viper of the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy ” (Oxford University Press) is perhaps the ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Utah’s first presidential vote was a landslide for the Democrat

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Originally published in 2010 but not much has changed. Utah voters have been reliably Republican in presidential elections for more t...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Mormon cinema has evolved into bigger-budgeted, better-produced Sunday School films

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I just saw “Ephraim’s Journey,” which is essentially another take on — with a different perspective — of “17 Miracles,” which details t...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Dead on the Corridor blends Mormonism with life along I-15

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Review by Doug Gibson In Dead on the Corridor (Anderson Publishing, 2017), a collection of short stories from Utah writer James Elliot...
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...