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New Content at the Joseph Smith Papers website
New Content at the Joseph Smith Papers website includes a history of the church in Missouri The Church History Department has announced a major update to the Joseph Smith Papers website. Additions and...
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Faulconer and the Nietzschean
Back in March of this year (2014) James Faulconer posted a blog article entitled ‘Two Kinds of Religion’ where he mentions that Nietzsche, “… may have been right in his arguments about one kind of...
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The Prodigal Half-Quorum of “Lost Apostles”
Title: Lost Apostles: Forgotten Members of Mormonism’s Original Quorum of Twelve Authors: William Shepard and H. Michael Marquardt Publisher: Signature Books Genre: Mormon History Year Published: 2014...
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Room for All in this Church
We face a difficult and pivotal moment in Mormonism as LDS leaders and church members wrestle more openly with complicated aspects of our faith, its doctrine, and its history—often in spaces afforded...
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Loyalty in the Church
“If you can’t follow ‘The Brethren,’ why don’t you just leave?” Kate Kelly’s excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the many conversations surrounding it provide...
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Miller Eccles Study Group – Texas Edition: Adam Miller and the Spirituality...
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love those who interest you, and hate those who bore you. But I say unto you, Love those who bore you… - Matthew 5:43-44 (Adam Miller Translation)...
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Genesis of Doubt
Matthew 7:7–11 (NRSV) “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for...
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Emma’s Awareness: A Response to Brian Hales’ JMH Letter to the Editor
It has come to my attention that Brian Hales has commented on my article Keeping a Secret: Freemasonry, Polygamy, and the Nauvoo Relief Society, 1842-1844 which was published in the Fall 2013 issue of...
View ArticleFaith & Knowledge Conference CFP
I am very happy to announce the 5th biennial Faith & Knowledge Conference to be held at the University of Virginia February 27-29, 2015. The CFP may be found here:...
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Come Support Our Bloggers at the Sunstone Symposium!
Several Worlds Without End bloggers will be presenting at the upcoming Salt Lake City Sunstone Symposium, held at the University of Utah from July 30 to August 2, 2014. If you’re in the neighborhood,...
View ArticleAcademic Job Posting from BYU
Our friends at BYU asked me to post the following job announcement for a faculty position in Church History and Doctrine, starting Fall 2015. I’m sure we have some WWE readers who are qualified and...
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The Gospel Checklist: Crowding Out the Spirit?
[T]he Final Judgment is not just an evaluation of a sum total of good and evil acts—what we have done. It is an acknowledgment of the final effect of our acts and thoughts—what we have become. It is...
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The Polygamy Revelations of Joseph Smith
The recent gospel topics essays by the church on plural marriage provide an unprecedented, frank look at a number of aspects of plural marriage previously not included in church discourse. With an...
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2015 Summer Seminar: “Organizing the Kingdom: Priesthood, Church Government,...
The Maxwell Institute will be sponsoring another summer seminar for graduate students, CES educators, and other qualified individuals on the BYU campus in Provo, UT, from June 14 to July 23....
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Miller Eccles Study Group – Texas Edition: The Mundane and the Sublime in...
Michelangelo, Pieta [A]ll good things…come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. – Norman Maclean[1] This last Sunday, the teacher in Elders Quorum relayed some experiences he’d...
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Documents, Volume 3 of the Joseph Smith Papers released
I had the good fortune to attend a media event with members of the Joseph Smith Papers (JSP) team on Dec 1st for a couple of exciting announcements and updates. A major web “refresh” was just released...
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Council of Fifty: A Documentary History
Council of Fifty: A Documentary History, Jedediah S. Rogers, editor, Signature Books (2014), Kindle & Hardback, 480 pages. Jed Rogers and the team at Signature Books have produced an important,...
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Denver Snuffer and an Emerging Mormon Mysticism
Tim Malone Tim Malone was a long-time member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Latter-day Saint who served as a member of the Stake High Council, went on a mission, and was married...
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This Forgotten Restoration Will Sound Amazingly Familiar—Except for the...
The Banazova Plateau, site of the New Jerusalem The prophet drew opinions the way a sweaty horse draws flies. Some reverenced him as God’s sainted mouthpiece, while others called him heretic, madman,...
View ArticleJWHA Conference Call for Papers
Do you love church history? Visit the annual John Whitmer Historical Association meeting at Independence, Missouri, September 24–27, 2015. Listen to presentations and discuss historical events with...
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