Monday, March 18, 2024

Review: American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor

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  --- Review by Doug Gibson I really enjoy reading fiction by David G. Pace. He often captures the conflict between traditional Mormonism, i...
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Book takes a look at all those spirit visits we Mormons receive

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  Review by Doug Gibson If you are a longtime Mormon like me, you know a healthy amount of the stories out there. There's that missionar...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Doctrine on children who die fulfills a primal desire for Latter-day Saint parents

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The second-hardest thing I have ever done is hold my infant son in my arms and watch Ray die. The hardest task for my wife and me were allow...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Biographies of George Q Cannon, Joseph F Smith provide honest in-depth portrayals

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  Observations by Doug Gibson Last fall I read two new biographies of 19th century/early 20th century LDS Church leaders Joseph F. Smith, wh...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

A 'Utah Camelot' scandal led to the death of an early-Mormon 'princess'

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I’m haunted by a ragged PDF-copied photograph, courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, of Louisa “Louie” Wells, who 130 years ago was...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Review: Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath

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  Review by Doug Gibson In “ Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath ” (Oxford University Press, 2023), authors...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Ron Ormond, Estus Pirkle and those hellfire and damnation films

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  -- I like the Mormon definition of hell. It’s called Sons of Perdition, which to me has always sounded like a sequel to the Laurel & H...