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The Coming Mormon Environmentalism
Elder Marcus Nash On April 12, 2013, I attended a Symposium on Religion, Faith , and the Environment in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. There were attorneys, Buddhists,...
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Order of the Days of Creation
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth Some assume the creation story described in the opening chapter of the Bible is a literal description how the universe unfolded. Efforts have...
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Why Mormons Should Not Be Afraid of Mormon Studies
The title of this essay may seem a bit shocking; like an issue that shouldn’t require much thought. Of course Mormons should not be leery of Mormon studies! To the contrary, Mormons should embrace...
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The Word of Wisdom as Early Mormon Commandment and Identity Marker
The current dominant narrative among Mormon historians is that the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89) didn’t begin to function as a commandment or Mormon identity marker until the early twentieth century....
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Visions of Light: Itzhak Eyzik and Joseph Smith
We at Worlds Without End are pleased to host a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Allen Hansen. This post is adapted from his presentation at the Mormon Scholars in the Humanities conference...
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Jason Mack, Joseph Smith’s Seeker Uncle
Lucy Mack Smith, mother of Joseph Smith and sister of Jason Mack. Lucy’s book “Joseph Smith, the Prophet and His Progenitors” is the major surviving source of information about Jason. One of the...
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The BYU New Testament Commentary
On May 15, 2013, the BYU Religious Studies Center, BYU Studies, the Maxwell Institute and the Ancient Near Eastern Studies Program at BYU sponsored their first annual New Testament Conference as a...
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Like A Boss: A Critique of Nibley’s “Leaders to Managers”
“Talk to corporate! (Like a boss!) Approve memos! (Like a boss!)…” A few years ago, I stumbled across one of Joanna Brooks’ many Ask Mormon Girl blog posts.[1] The inquirer was desperately trying to...
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Mere ‘Tools’ in a Man’s Exaltation? An Analysis of Women in D&C 132
The status of women in religious discourse has historically constituted a troubling theological issue, especially in light of the traditional authoritative role of male hegemony in world religions....
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The Missouri Old Sow Cannon, or “Foli’s Folly”
An antique cannon nicknamed the “Old Sow” resides in the LDS Church History Museum. There’s a story behind the nickname. However, it should be noted that this isn’t the first “Old Sow” cannon in...
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Elder Packer and the Danger of Homosexuality, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago this week, Elder Packer gave a talk to the All-Church Coordinating Counsel, opening with some advice he received about which direction church administrators should face. [1] to the...
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A Peek behind the LDS-strogen Curtain
Sutton, Aleesa. Diary of a Single Mormon Female. Published by the author, 2012. 237 pp. Introduction, photographs, appendices, funeral potatoes recipe. ISBN: 978-0-9917003-1-8. Reviewed by Chris Webber...
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Orson Pratt’s Paradoxical Assessment of the Rise of Spiritualism
The Fox sisters, Spiritualism’s first mediums. In 1848, a Quaker couple named Isaac and Amy Post encountered two young girls who claimed to be mediums in communication with the spirit of a murdered...
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Review: ‘An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself’
An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us About Itself When I attended BYU, I was enamored with the idea of using technology to analyze the Book of Mormon. I wrote a program and an...
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Joseph Smith’s Personal Feud with a Probable Ringleader of the Carthage Mob
The study of history is largely the study of the causes and motivations behind past events. Historians want to know why past events happened and why past people acted in the ways they did. Mob violence...
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Lost and Found Christianities: Bart Ehrman and the Christianicity of Mormonism
Worlds Without End is pleased to present this offering from guest poster Richard D. Lamborn. Richard practices law within the shadow of Yankee Stadium. In addition to a University of Utah J.D., he...
View ArticleTalmage and the Nonexistence of Reasonable Atheism.
One of my favorite Mormon books that I own is a little hardback copy of Talmage’s ‘Articles of Faith’ from 1937. While not exactly rare, this edition (15th) was designed for missionary use and is...
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Salt Lake City’s 1909 “Living Flag” of Children to Honor Veterans of the...
In August of 1909, Salt Lake City hosted the forty-third annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization for veterans of the Civil War. One feature of the 1909 encampment...
View ArticleThe Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar Symposium (July 11, 2013)
The Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar, co-sponsored by the Mormon Scholars Foundation and the Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley Institution, will be holding a public symposium on Thursday July 11th, 2013 at...
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First Impressions: BYU New Testament Commentary Series, “The Revelation of...
Since the very first rumblings I heard of the planned exhaustive BYU New Testament Commentary Series, I was both extremely excited, and a little nervous. Part of the excitement was due to the notice...
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