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LDS Newsroom
- Bible Brought to Life on Ancient Jerusalem Set May 22, 2013
- Church Working With Oklahoma Officials to Provide Support in Wake of Tornadoes May 21, 2013
- Funeral Services for Frances J. Monson Announced May 20, 2013
- Frances J. Monson, Wife of President Thomas S. Monson, Passes Away May 17, 2013
- Elder Dallin H. Oaks Honored for Championing Religious Freedom May 16, 2013
- Rendering of Meridian Idaho Mormon Temple Now Public May 15, 2013
- Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right| 15 May 2013 May 15, 2013
- Mormon Delegation Encourages Religious Dialogue at International Conference May 14, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites |14 May 2013 May 14, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites | May 9 May 9, 2013
Blog Archives
Martin Luther King in Deseret
On this 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and in the pre-Conference blogging lull, perhaps there is room in your day to remember Dr. King’s visit to Salt Lake City. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
And Yet Another Joseph Smith Photograph
The April 1st posting of this article may tempt you to think this is an April Fool’s prank. I wish it were. It is not. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
The CSI Effect and Mormon History
Television police dramas are so popular that they have come to influence the American legal system — or so say believers in the “CSI Effect.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype
The Church History Library/Archives staff have been hit with a wave of telephone calls today from Church members looking for confirmation of the latest rumor to hit the LDS fan rumor mill. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Substituting One Speculation for Another
Our Sunday School class opened this morning with a discussion of the “generals in the war in heaven” nonsense that the Church is trying so hard to quash. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Missionary at Mass
My father used to point to the ceiling in our living room and claim he could still see a dent made by my head as I jumped up in excitement over discovering that my call was to the Switzerland Geneva Mission. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Forging a Life
Although she had immigrated to Boston, the story of Misha Defonseca didn’t get nearly as much press last week in the U.S. as it did in Europe, when she joined a long line of self-confessed fakes Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Living with Another’s Agency
How often do you want to “fix things” for someone you love because you (think you) see so much more clearly than he does? 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
The Childless Ones
We are reminded again of the importance of families to God’s eternal plan. We are reminded again that the Church teaches to the ideal, to the pattern, to the eternal. Those of us (men as well as women) whose lives do not — will not, cannot, in mortality — reflect the divine pattern are reminded again to turn to God for answers in our personal circumstances. Sometimes it helps to know that the saints, as well as a Heavenly Father, understand what is missing, and that we would mirror the divine pattern if only we could. 1 person likes... Read more »
The Old Written Order of Things
The Presiding Bishopric’s Office used to publish a monthly magazine called Progress of the Church, filled with news and statistics and directives to Church leaders at the local level. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Mistrust and Verify
A reader asks me to expand on a recent comment regarding historians and histories of Mormonism. I do so realizing that it may wrongly be interpreted as personal; my purpose is to illustrate the causes for my earlier evaluation and to demonstrate the value of questioning claims that don’t quite “feel” right. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Joseph Smith, Again for the First Time
Sometimes I have suffered from convert envy. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Utah Historical Quarterly: Utah War Issue
“One hundred and fifty years ago a federal army of nearly two thousand soldiers under the command of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston huddled in their makeshift quarters at Camp Scott near the ruins of Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming to wait out the bitter winter and prepare to march into the Salt Lake Valley later in the spring of 1858.” 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Primary Was Intended for Boys
(and always has been). Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
In Which Jules Verne Meets Clarissa
Clarissa, the daughter of commenter East Coast, is a seventh-grader, the only Latter-day Saint in a student body of more than 600. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
La Ville des Mormons
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Tracing Emily (updated)
This story begins at the bitter end, with suicide in a Butte brothel. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Going Long: Of Clubs and Conduct
John Varah Long was cited to appear before church officials in 1866 for, among other reasons, “belonging to the young men’s social club, and other conduct unbecoming a saint.†Is it possible that the social club, one cause of Long’s excommunication, was also a model for the church’s Mutual Improvement Associations? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
When Words Fail
In the summer of 1879, a meteor streaked across the sky above Utah, and people throughout the state tried to describe what they had seen and heard. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Going Long: Of Speculation and Dark Mormon Doings
November is TV sweeps month, where networks and stations vie for audiences to set their advertising rates for the coming months. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Mutual Questions
Before there were Young Men and Young Women, there were the Young Men’s and Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Associations. Before there were correlated lesson manuals and basketball and scouting and Young Womanhood awards and dancing-a-Book-of-Mormon’s-width-apart there were homemade programs. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Torn Between Two Lovers
English manufacturers were not the only ones to make Mormons the butt of a joke to advertise their products. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Anaïse Guyot: The Girl They Left Behind
Early missionaries carried the gospel to many corners of the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, baptizing converts in neighborhoods where there was no established branch to sustain them. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Relief in the Order
The town of Kingston, Utah, was settled as a United Order community, whose inhabitants pooled their economic, spiritual, and social resources and attempted to live the law of consecration Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Brigham ‘n’ Ethel 4Ever
A woman — or, perhaps, a group of men and/or women — bent on a practical joke and signing her letter as “Ethel,” once wrote to Brigham Young from St. Louis to propose marriage. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
“The most difficult of all the many subjects”
That is what B.H. Roberts called it when he reached the point in his monumental Comprehensive History of the Church where he had to confront the Mountain Meadows massacre, which occurred 150 years ago today. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A French View of Mormonism, 1941
I’ve referred a time or two to one of my heroes, Leon Fargier, the only Melchisedek Priesthood holder in France during World War II. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Of Perfect Organizations
“No other organization is so perfect as the Mormon Church, except the German army.†Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Last Blast of Summer Reading
Hard to believe it’s the end of summer, especially with temps around here expected to top 100 again. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Conferences and Events
- American Society of Church History Annual Meeting
- American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
- Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association
- Western History Association Annual Conference
- Utah State Historical Society Annual Meeting
- Center for Studies on New Religions
- Mormon History Association
- European Mormon Studies Association Conference
- Sunstone Symposium