Confessions of a Modern Day Mobber
March 27, 2018I have persecuted Mormons for years for ten years. I began riding with the mob in the early 90’s while working for the Utah County Journal. Asked one day to write a quick editorial for…
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Navigating the Difficult Terrain of the Mormon Experience | James B. Allen, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1897, and Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen, Mormon History
March 26, 2018For the last several years I have had the opportunity to serve on the Mormon History Association’s book awards committee. That assignment— in addition to my day job as Curator of Special Collections at Weber…
Midwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
March 26, 2018Midwest Pilgrims is the result of a charge given the women at the Nauvoo women’s retreat held in 1982. It was to go back to their various geo graphical locations and organize similar gatherings. It…
“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80
Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
The Ideology of Empire: A View from “America’s Attic”
March 23, 2018LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to defend one’s life, family, property and liberties on the one hand, with the commandment to renounce war as a tool of Satan on the other. While there is more than enough material in LDS scriptures and commentary to support a number of positions, until very recently any dichotomy in LDS attitudes towards specific wars has generally been seen only in the context of U.S. foreign policy.
The Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle: David O. McKay’s Confrontation with Communism
March 23, 2018Throughout his long tenure as a General Authority, David O. McKay was consistently opposed to Communism, as were his fellow General Authorities. Ironically, once he had become president of the Church, opposition to Communism became…
Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young
March 23, 2018Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the north side of the street opens onto a long path that leads to what was once the backyard of Thomas B. Child. A stonemason by trade and Mormon bishop by calling, Child spent many of his spare moments between 1945 and 1963 designing surreal and sacred sculptures and engraving poignant aphorisms into stone tablets, gradually creating one of the most unique (and, even to most Mormons, unknown) collections of folk art in the United States.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
March 22, 2018In a June 1843 public meeting, Joseph Smith was asked why “gathering . . . the people of God” was such an important principle. He responded with this lively bit of wisdom: “A man never…
Garden Tomb
March 22, 2018The water was black around our knees. Bamboo surrounded and overlooked us. It was so quiet in the mist and the dark green stalks that the sound of our legs moving was an intrusion. Water…
Seeing Post-Zion Salt Lake City | Alan Barnett, Seeing Salt Lake City: The Legacy of the Shipler Photographers
March 22, 2018Those of us who study material culture frequently use “rootedness,” which is the quality of an object or a structure when it is fixed in association with a geographical place. For example, a group of…