MHA 2017 Call for Papers Deadline Extended
Dear members and friends of the Mormon History Association: Due to recent requests, we have extended the deadline for proposals for the 2017 MHA conference to be held in the St. Louis, Missouri metro...
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The Vision of All: A Review
Review of Joseph M. Spencer, The Vision of All: Twenty-Five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). In his introduction to the Book of Isaiah a couple years...
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Christ’s Unassuming Kingdom: A Review of “One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly”
A preliminary note on audience: I’m new to the blog as a writer, but I’ve been reading since Chris started it all so I realize we’re not all Mormons here. I assume a Mormon audience in this post...
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The Policy on Gay Couples, and the Priesthood Ban: A Comparison
I’ve heard people wonder what relationship there might be between the Church’s policy banning gay couples including their children from the church, and Brigham Young’s ban against blacks holding the...
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A Colorful God: Review of ‘The Garden of Enid’
Review of Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part One (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). When I was still in elementary school, I used to remove the “funnies”...
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Embrace the Weirdness: Review of ‘The Garden of Enid, Part 2’
Review of Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part Two (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2017). I often feel like a fraud when it comes to the world of Marvel, DC,...
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The Paper Plates of Laban
Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples. I will wait for Yahweh, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. (Isaiah 8:16-17) This cryptic command...
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The ghoulish tactics of Dan Peterson and fiendish apologetics
Here I sit waiting for ghouls and goblins to manifest at my door with their insatiable demands for sugar-laden lucre. And while I await my ghoulish doom, I feel compelled to respond to perhaps the...
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Reactions to ‘The Policy’: November 2015
On the 2nd anniversary of what has become known simply as the “Policy,” or sometimes the “Exclusion Policy,” I wanted to post stories of how people were affected by it. Shortly after news of the policy...
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Review: “Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources”
Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen and Sharalyn D. Howcroft (Oxford University Press, 2018) reviewed by Clair Barrus. In...
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A Mormon Priesthood of All Believers in Alma 13
I have a new essay out in A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Matthew Bowman and Rosemary Demos, which was just published by the Maxwell Institute this month. It has been my...
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It’s a beautiful day for hot springs hunting in the valley of the Great Salt...
Pioneer journals speak often of hot springs near the Great Salt Lake. To indigenous peoples these sacred waters bubbling from the earth effected miracle cures. Pioneers, too, believed pungent sulfur...
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Review: John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West
Title: Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West Author: Melvin JohnsonPublisher: Greg Kofford Books Pages: 210 Year: 2019 Price: Paper $24.95; Cloth $34.95 Odysseus...
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Review: “Thunder From the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics”
“Thunder From the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics” – Edited by Matthew L Harris Published by: University of Illinois Press, 2019Number of Pages: 247, Paper Binding and eBook, Cloth...
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Review: In A Rugged Land
“In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954”, James Swensen, University of Utah Press, 2018 Genre: Documentary Photography, History Number of...
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Review: “The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the...
James Godson Bleak Title: The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah Editors and Contributors: Aaron McArthur and Reid Neilson. Forward: Elder...
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NO BEATLE CUTS!
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show At the 2019 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium Clair Von Barrus, Todd Compton, and Harold Peterson delivered a fun and fascinating session called “The Beatles, Rock and...
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A Review of Jonathan Stapley’s The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and...
Stapley, Jonathan A. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. 188 pp. ISBN 9780190844431. Best Mormon History Book of 2018 Jonathan A....
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Review: Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room
Title: Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room Author: Rod Decker Published by: Signature Books, 2019, 404 pages, Paper binding ISBN: 978-1560852728, Price: 24.95 Candidates debate during the 2019...
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Book Review: “Faith and Intellect: The Lives and Contributions of Latter-day...
Title: “Faith and Intellect: The Lives and Contributions of Latter-day Saint Thinkers” Author: Leonard Arrington, Edited by: Gary Bergera Published by: Signature Books, 2019Genre: Biography Pages: 179...
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