Monday, January 21, 2019

Oliver Cowdery’s ‘Article on Marriage’ embarrassed the LDS Church in its polygamy heyday

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During its first several decades, LDS Church leaders included an “ Article on Marriage ” in the faith’s Doctrine and Covenants. Penned ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Morrisite War was a bloody little event in 1860s Top of Utah

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In the small northern community of South Weber, Utah, a monument was erected to the Morrisite War, a small but deadly 1862 battle betwee...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Last years of LDS prophet Kimball’s life was an excruciating, fogged journey

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 I’ve written before on the excellent draft copy of “ Lengthen Your Stride ,” Ed Kimball’s fascinating look at the tenure of his fath...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Book of Laman an interesting take on Mormon scripture

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Review by Doug Gibson While reading " Book of Laman," (By Common Consent Press, 2017) , author Mette Ivie Harrison 's lit...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Is the nude scene appropriate in the Harry Potter 7 movie?

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(I wrote this nine years ago, and Cal did the marvelous cartoon, when there was a decidedly minor furor over a "nude" scene i...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Mormon prophet Woodruff crossed the Rubicon often

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“ Things in Heaven and Earth ,” Thomas Alexander’s exhaustive biography of Mormonism’s fourth prophet, Wilford Woodruff, provides justi...
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 ...