Thursday, April 25, 2019

David O. McKay diaries charts his life as a prophet

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" Confidence Amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O McKay ," (Signature Books, 2019), edited by scholar Harvard S. He...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Diaries of the ‘cowboy apostle’ Ivins include secret Mormon plural marriages, political intrigue

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On Sept. 12, 1932, Mormon apostle Anthony W. Ivins, first counselor to LDS President Heber J. Grant, made this diary entry. “ On this da...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Isaac Russell, New York Times journalist, PR specialist for the Mormon Church

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(Originally published at StandardBlogs in 2012) At this year’s Mormon History Association conference in Calgary, two contributors, Mi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Did an angel with a drawn sword force Joseph Smith to start polygamy?

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In his biography of Joseph Smith, “ Rough Stone Rolling ,” author Richard Lyman Bushman relates a popular Mormon legend/history regarding...
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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Sonia Johnson and the ERA a contentious issue during presidency of Kimball

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This essay was first published in April of 2010. In “ Lengthen Your Stride ,” the biography of the Prophet Spencer W. Kimball’s tenur...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Spaulding Manuscript as Jeffersonian idealism, and not a Book of Mormon template

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Solomon  Spaulding’s “ Manuscript Found ,” an unpublished novel by the 18th and 19th century minister, is a topic of interest to anti-M...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

The Singles Ward remains the ultimate fun Mormon in-joke movie

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I wrote this review/analysis more than nine years ago but decided to rescue it from Google Wayback to place on the blog. -- Doug Gibson ...