[…] Mormon History Association, Fawn McKay Brodie measures up to the honor. A biographer commonly finds varied reasons for selecting his or her subject. Newell Bringhurst candidly discusses his motivations for researching and writing about […]
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[…] preservation and its final retrieval and translation by Joseph Smith. This pattern of argument has a history dating back to Joseph Smith himself. Perhaps the best known recent practitioner of this form of argument […]
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[…] the highest form of marriage in the celestial realm is what is technically called polygyny, plural wives for a single husband. I believe official Mormon polygyny, as it was practiced in the nineteenth century, […]
[…] research and writing of a book-length biography on this much misunderstood woman, best known among Latter-day Saints for her controversial Joseph Smith biography, No Man Knows My History. In what turned out to be […]
[…] up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I had baptized her in 1980. As a BYU student, I had […]
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