Gary James Bergera

Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation

Review: Priesthood Power Jonathan A. Stapley. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology download

Review: The History that Dares Speak Its Name J. Seth Anderson. LGBT Salt Lake

Seth Anderson’s slim book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s multi-volume Images of Modern America photographic series, is much more than an important new contribution to Utah and LDS history. It is a revelation— a surprising, unexpected…

The Orson Pratt-Brigham Young Controversies: Conflict Within the Quorums, 1853 to 1868

Brigham Young and Orson Pratt are both regarded as valiant leaders during the first generation of the restored Church. Both worked mightily in the missionary field and showed themselves stalwart defenders of the faith. Yet…

Grey Matters

Last fall a new publication appeared at Brigham Young University, “an independent student weekly,” The Seventh East Press. Its first stated reason for going into business was that “[t]here is no publication that puts in…

Orson Pratt: Prolific Pamphleteer

The most prolific and perhaps most influential early Mormon pamphleteer was Orson Pratt. From his conversion in 1830 to his death in 1881, he authored over thirty works on both religious and scientific topics. Influential…

What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC

Even now, nearly eleven years later, I can still see his face—shocked, fearful, and deeply pained. I’d been working for almost four months at the newly constructed, multi-million dollar Language Training Mission, as the Missionary…

God’s Hand in Mormon History | Richard O. Cowan, The Church in the Twentieth Century: The Impressive Story of the Advancing Kingdom

For Richard O. Cowan, a professor of LDS history at Brigham Young University specializing in twentieth-century Mormon ism, the history of the Mormon kingdom is not only the religious success story of the last 2,000…

A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics

B.H. Roberts’s Autobiography

Building Wilkinson’s University

Friendly History: Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, by Glen M. Leonard

The Earliest Eternal Sealing for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead

Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844

Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1–74
Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.

“Rising above Principle”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1953-61 Part 1

“Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1953-61

The Richard D. Poll and J. Kenneth Davies Cases: Politics and Religion at BYU during the Wilkinson Years