Why Am I Here?
April 13, 2018I found this philosophical bit by Chip Janis in In the New World (1988), a little book of poems put together by young Indian students at the Pretty Eagle School and St. Charles Mission […]
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Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
April 10, 2018The policy of recording patriarchal blessings, copies of which are deposited in the office of the LDS Church Historian, affords a valuable picture of cultural change in the church, perhaps reflective of changes […]
Shades of Gray: Sonia Johnson’s Life through Letters and Autobiography
April 5, 2018[…] particularly suburban house wives, suffered from deep discontent in the 1950s. She asserted that in the post- World War II era journalists, educators, advertisers, and social scientists lured women into the home with unrealistic […]
Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
April 2, 2018[…] 265 million by 2080 and believes that Mormonism is on its way to becoming the next major world religion.[3] In view of these rising numbers, official LDS rhetoric has been increasingly recognized (both praised […]
Social Forces that Imperil the Family
March 29, 2018[…] demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual inter course has decreased so that adolescents and young adults are […]
One Hundred Eighteen Years of Attitude: The History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen
March 27, 2018[…] there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World War (1946-1964, 1972-1987).
“The Grandest Principle of the Gospel”: Christian Nihilism, Sanctified Activism, and Eternal Progression
March 20, 2018In February 1895, the editors of a small journal known as The Index (an obscure periodical produced by the Mutual Improvement Association of Salt Lake City’s Twentieth Ward) submitted the following inquiry to ten […]
Mormon Scholars Foundation Summer Fellowship Conference | Lost “Wagonloads of Plates”: The Disappearance and Deliteralization of Sealed Records
March 16, 2018When Joseph Smith’s unearthing of the “gold plates” with the mysteriously bound portion first stirred intense controversy in the regions of New York, notions of “sealed books” had already been causing upheavals in other […]
The Kirtland Temple as a Shared Space: A Conversation with David J. Howlett
March 14, 2018[…] (Spring 2014): 104–123 An oral interview between an LDS Member and a Community of Christ member regarding the history of the Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people can still […]
Another Look at Joseph Smith’s First Vision
March 14, 2018The First Vision, that seminal event which has inspired and intrigued all of us for nearly two centuries, came into sharp focus again in 2012 when another volume of the prestigious Joseph Smith […]