Chad Nielsen

CHAD NIELSEN {[email protected]} has three great intel￾lectual passions in life: science, history/religious studies, and music. He has pursued a career in biotechnology but maintains an active interest in both of his other passions. Chad is a four-time winning contestant in the Arrington Writing Award competition held at Utah State University and has presented at the Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology. He is a practicing Latter-day Saint who currently serves as a member of the Bells at Temple Square handbell choir and writes for the Latter-day Saint blogs Times and Seasons and From the Desk.

O Utah, Where’s Your Shame!: A Review ofTwo Mountain Meadows Massacre Books | Richard E. Turley, Jr., and Barbara Jones Brown, Vengeance Is Mine, and Janiece Johnson, Convicting the Mormons

Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 1

The Mountain Meadows Massacre is a hugely important (and hugely tragic) topic in the history of both Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That is why it is so notable that…

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The Sermon Lives On | William V. Smith, The King Follett Sermon: A Biography

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 3

When I picked up William V. Smith’s The King Follett Sermon: A Biography, I was expecting to find a history of the text of the famous sermon from April 1844. I found that it was…

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