Sunday, April 25, 2021

Mormonism, secularism cited as sin within USA by late 19th century Protestant America

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--- At the 2013 Mormon History Association gathering, in Layton, Utah, there was a discourse delivered by Leigh Eric Schmidt, a professor at...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Notes on our trip to Hungary

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  Note : In 2020, our family planned a month-long trip to Hungary that was canceled due to Covid-19. It would have been nine years after our...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Baptisms for health were once more common than baptisms for the dead

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  Most of us know about the ubiquity of the LDS Church performing baptisms for the dead in church temples. In many locations there have been...
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Sunday, April 4, 2021

‘Millstone City’ an example of the Mormon pulp fiction genre

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  -- There’s been an emergence in what I call the Mormon pulp fiction genre. Far less refined than an Orson Scott Card novel, writers delve ...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Roadshows. Will they ever become the norm again in LDS wards?

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Growing up in California, in my stake and ward the “roadshow” was a BIG DEAL. Months were spent preparing for a long night of a play and sho...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Satan and Jesus Christ are ‘bros’ when Romney ran for president

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  ( I wrote this piece more than 11 years ago. I like it, so I rescued it from Wayback purgatory . The photo above is of Romney in 2012 afte...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Mormons, Catholics both have to deal with dark side of their histories

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  There’s an interesting article in the Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Mormon History . “ Evil in the Family: Mormons and Catholics Strug...
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