Michael W. Homer

MICHAEL W. HOMER is a practicing trial lawyer in Salt Lake City and chair since 2003 of the Utah Board of State History. He is the author of "Masonry and Mormonism in Utah, 1850-1984," Journal of Mormon History 18 (Fall 1992): 57-96; and "'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry': The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27 (Fall 1994): 1-113. He is the recipient of the Lowell L. Bennion Editor's Award, the T. Edgar Lyon Award of Excellence, and the John Whitmer Historical Association Best Article Award.

LDS Prospects in Italy for the Twenty-first Century

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

The Judiciary and the Common Law in Utah Territory, 1850-61

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 1

Latter-day Saints, Lawyers, and the Legal Process: Zion in the Courts

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 3

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Spiritualism and “New Religions”

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 4

The Building of Mormon History in Italy: Le nuove religioni, Le sette cristiane: Dai Testimoni di Geova al Reverendo Moon

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 1

The Survival of New Religious Movements: When Prophets Die: The Post Charismatic Fate of New Religious Movements

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 2

Anti-Christian Fundamentalism: Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism by R. A. Gilbert

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 4

Spiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1

“Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry”: The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 3

The Open Canon and Innovation: Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith by Gary James Bergera

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3

A National Conspiracy?: Junius & Joseph: presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet by Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 2