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In my estimation, Sara M. Patterson’s The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism will be regarded as one of the most important works of Latter-day Saint/Mormon scholarship of the twenty-first […]
Stonehenge was a disappointment. If we had shown up for the summer solstice, we could have touched the stones while watching the sun rise. However, that would have involved fighting our way through a […]
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[…] reluctant head out every half hour to remind me not just what time it is but that for twenty years he lay silent in his gift-box-cum-cardboard-cage, unable to sing his little Swiss songs of […]
[…] Latter-day Saints just can’t write perceptively about their community. Often, these assertions are offered as a justification for the recent proliferation of the Hollywood Mormon crime dramas that claim to portray the realities that […]
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[…] main source the bibliography Mormon Americana, which is distributed semi-monthly by the Brigham Young University Library primarily for the benefit of libraries that have an interest in Mormon literature. He has excluded many of […]