Sunday, December 29, 2019

LDS Church News once spoke positively of Hitler, Nazi Germany

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History is blunt. Left to itself, it doesn’t spin or gloss over unpleasant facts. The positive side to unvarnished history is that it ca...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Review: Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism

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Review by Doug Gibson It’s been a long wait for the biography of Parley P. Pratt, the irascible, in-your-face 19 th century Mormon a...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Lincoln used diplomacy to charm the once-hostile Mormons

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Originally published at StandardBlogs in 2011.  The crude, casual racism of a long-ago era is striking in this Nov. 28, 1860 Deseret Ne...
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...