Friday, March 31, 2023

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, and the LDS Spirit World

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--- A couple of times a year, usually on a Sunday after church, I re-read C.S. Lewis’ marvelous post-mortal novella/fable “ The Great Divorc...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Secular appeal helped Utah to be a big hit at 1893 Chicago Congress

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  I n contrast to the Mormon Church’s bitter rejection at the 1893 Chicago Parliament of Religions, the territory of Utah was warmly receive...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Spiritual comfort food from the latest LDS conference, from 2010

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      I wrote this piece almost 13 years ago for the now-defunct StandardBlogs and r escued it from Wayback . I found it interesting, still ...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Rarely seen 'Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love, 1931, packs BYU's Varsity Theater

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  Review/observations by Doug Gibson For about a couple decades, I had longed to view the early sound film "based" on a segment of...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Utah County Dream Mine still attracts LDS apocalyptic faithful

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  -- This blog post was originally published in January 2011 on the now-defunct StandardBlogs . To my knowledge there are still many investe...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Lost Apostles a fascinating look into the early years of the LDS Church

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  Signature has a Mormon history book, " The Lost Apostles: Forgotten Members of Mormonism's Original Quorum of Twelve ," that...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Remembering Mr. Krueger's Christmas

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  --      Most of the world associates the actor Jimmy Stewart and Christmas with the marvelous Frank Capra film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”  ...