REVIEW: Behind the Scenes Tour of the Kirtland Temple From Basement to Bell...
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Kirtland Temple From Basement to Bell Tower Author: Ronald Romig Published by: John Whitmer Books Genre: Non-Fiction – History Published: 2019, Paper binding, 72 pages...
View ArticleBook Review: The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History
The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History by Darren Parry, Published by: BCC Press, Published in 2019 Number of Pages: 165Binding: Paper ISBN: 978-1948218207Price: 9.95 Site of the Bear River...
View ArticleReview of The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon...
Review of Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey, The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019). “Mormon...
View ArticleBook Review: “Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait”
Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait: How a Methodist Girl from Hueytown, Alabama, Became an Acclaimed Mormon Studies Scholar By Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, Published by Kofford Books...
View ArticleBook Review: The Ancient Order of Things: Essays on the Mormon Temple
Title: The Ancient Order of Things: Essays on the Mormon TempleEditor: Christian Larsen Published by: Signature Books in 2019 Number of Pages: 280 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56085-279-7 Price:...
View ArticleBook Review: “Please, Please Call Me to the Bishopric!”
Title: Please, Please Call Me to the Bishopric! BY Jett AtwoodPublished: 2019, Number of Pages: 78, Paper bound ISBN: 9781086185157 Price: $10.00 A mother sits on a pew nursing a baby while shushing...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the...
Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions, Edited by: Reid Neilson and Carson Teuscher, Published by: University of Illinois Press Genre: Documentary...
View ArticleMormon 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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:...
View ArticleBook 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:...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleAdam Clarke’s Commentary and the Book of Mormon
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...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleApologetics 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...
View ArticleMy “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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