Monday, May 29, 2023

Review: Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture

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  Review by Doug Gibson The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 was a horrific atrocity. It was unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence in t...
Monday, May 15, 2023

John Corrill was an older Christian convert to the early Mormon church

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 --- The early years of the Mormon Church are distinct for its young converts, with 20-something apostles embracing the progressive, radical...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Mormon Thunder recaps the life of Jedediah Morgan Grant

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  ---- Review by Doug Gibson --- Jedediah Grant was possessed of looks reserved for movie matinee idols, the counselor to Brigham Young was ...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

H. Dean Thompson was a teacher, historian, comedian, marimba player

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  ---- ( Originally published on April 22, 2011 . I am rescuing from archive oblivion this great Cal Grondahl cartoon that went with origina...
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 ...