Elder Ballard’s Advice–Start a Blog
I haven’t written for a while, and now I feel remiss. Today was graduation day at BYUH, and the visiting apostle, Elder Ballard, told us all to have more of an online presence. This sounded to me like...
View ArticleA Lady’s Life among the Mormons
One of the most invaluable publication series in Mormon Studies is Utah State University Press’s Life Writings of Frontier Women, with Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Series Editor. I have the full quiver...
View ArticleTwo latest in Signature’s Significant Diary Series
John P. Hatch, ed., Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2005), 882 pages, clothbound. Jedediah S. Rogers, ed., In the President’s Office: The Diaries of L....
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Research update on Mormon healing
As some know, Kris and I have worked together for the past couple of years doing research on Mormon healing. Our earliest work has focused on the liturgical aspects of Mormon healing, but we intend to...
View ArticleThe end of an era
I am a chemist by training, but Mormon history has always been open to dilettants (for good and ill). Still, as I ran headlong into the ocean of Mormon historiography, without the mentorship of many I...
View ArticleA Textual History of the KFD, Part I: Sources to the “History of Joseph Smith”
Part II of the series is available here. EDITORIAL NOTE: This post contains links to various transcripts of the “King Follett Discourse” which I have prepared. I prepared them quickly, so it is best to...
View ArticleA Textual History of the KFD, Part II
This post is a direct continuation of Part I and follows without introduction. The “History of Joseph Smith History” (HJS) version of the KFD or the “Manuscript History of the Church” from which it was...
View Article“knowledge, and power, by revelation”
A month ago I came home from teaching seminary and I was met by my wife. She told me to sit down. It was my first day teaching and we spent the early morning discussing the “Plan of Salvation,” or as I...
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Mormonism’s Last Colonizer
This week, Utah State University Press released a biography of William H. Smart. Smart was a missionary in Turkey, later the Eastern States Mission President from 1899-1900 and a Stake President in...
View ArticleSeattle Area, Winter 2011, Adult Religion Class: Doctrine and Covenants
Well, it looks like I will be teaching a once-a-week class on the Doctrine and Covenants (starting with Section 78) for the folks that live across the lake from Seattle. I’m looking forward to it. I...
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