Sunday, July 28, 2019

'Papa Married a Mormon' a 'Mormon-loves-gentile' story

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Few people really understand the fear felt by Mormons in the genesis of the faith's flight to Utah to avoid what members perceived a...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Mormon Church's snub at 1893 fair was bitter setback

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Originally published at StandardBlogs/Standard-Examiner Eighteen ninety-three was heralded as the end of the frontier era as the world...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

A review of the edgy LDS-themed novel, ‘Rift.’

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(Originally published at StandardBlogs in 2009) "You’re a salvation army of one,” a young woman tells elderly Jens Thorsen in Sou...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Ernest L. Wilkinson and the BYU tithing police fiasco

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In a 2011 issue of Sunstone magazine, Gary James Bergera has a very interesting article , “The Monitoring of BYU Faculty Tithing Paymen...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

A weekly bath was part of the spiritual cleansing of 1856 Utah

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I wanted to share this list of questions that Mormon Church leaders — in the middle of the Mormon Reformation — asked Utah members. The...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Mormon Doctrine enjoyed a long, controversial history

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This article was originally published at StandardBlogs in 2010. “Mormon Doctrine” is finally going out of print. The late apostle Bruc...
Monday, June 3, 2019

American Polygamy history focuses on fundamentalist Mormons

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Review by Doug Gibson I wonder how many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are aware of a statement in 1886, pr...
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