Friday, November 29, 2019

Mormons don’t really believe in a rapture, but we also obsess about the end times

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There’s an old Mormon joke: A cardinal says to the pope, “I have good news and bad news.” The pope replies, “Good news first.” The car...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Review: William Smith: In the Shadow of the Prophet

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Originally published at StandardNET In “ William B. Smith: In the Shadow of the Prophet” (Greg Kofford Books, 2015 ), author Kyle R. ...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Early Mormon leader Pratt talked of spirit world, disdained ghost hunting

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Originally published at StandardNET in 2010 . Today, as an LDS leader, Parley P. Pratt is mostly mentioned and taught as a subject of ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, a review

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Review by Doug Gibson " Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith ," 2019, University of Oklahoma Press, follow a m...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Mitt Romney’s dad George was too perfect to be president in 1968

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(This post, originally published at StandardNET , was written in 2010, long before Mitt Romney's unsuccessful 2012 bid for the presid...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Book argues that Book of Mormon a response to Anti-Semitism in New Testament

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Review by Doug Gibson Bradley J. Kramer, who has degrees from both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Brigham Young Un...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Early Mormon grudge against President Van Buren lasted a long time

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Mormons believe that the higher level of salvation, or exaltation, a person earns after their time on Earth determines the extent of t...