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Mormon Political Trilogy: A Brief Book Review
Utah, the Murder Hornet, err, Beehive State! It was not a planned, coordinated effort (I think), and the books were released out of order, but along with fires, plagues, and murder hornets, the last...
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Book Review: Kingdom of Nauvoo
Title: Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier Author: Ben Park Published by: Liveright Genre: History Year Published: 2020Number of Pages: 324Available...
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Book Review: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book...
Title: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William Davis, Published by the University of North Carolina PressGenre: HistoryYear Published: 2020Pages:...
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Book Review: Mercy without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Title: Mercy without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church, by: Lavina Fielding Anderson, Published by: Signature Books, Published in: 2020. Genre: Faith, Personal EssaysPages: 277 Binding: Paper ISBN:...
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Review: The Writings of Oliver H. Olney: April 1842 to February 1843 –...
The Writings of Oliver H. Olney: April 1842 to February 1843 – Nauvoo, Illinois Edited by: Richard G Moore Published by: Kofford Books, June 2020Genre: Documentary History Pages: 340 Binding: Cloth...
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“Writing Mormon History” is an emotional roller coaster ride
A review of Joseph W. Geisner, ed., Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020). Writing Mormon History, edited by Joseph W. Geisner, is a collection of...
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In his most recent podcast episode, Radio Free Mormon spent an hour and a half exploring the possibility of the influence of Adam Clarke’s early nineteenth century Bible commentary on the Book of...
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Review: Producing Ancient Scripture
I’ve been intrigued with what seem to be esoteric[1] influences flowing into Joseph Smith, and esoteric elements flowing out of him — into Mormonism. And as I consider how he fits into the larger...
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Apologetics and the Documentary Hypothesis: A Response
Since the 19th century, scholars have made exciting discoveries that shed significant light on the Bible. One of these findings is the fact that the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old...
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My “New” Article with Interpreter
Well, that was interesting. Following my last post, which expressed some public concerns regarding the recent Interpreter article addressing the Documentary Hypothesis, the editors decided to...
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