Nauvoo, June 12, 1842 Dear father and mother, I am at a loss what I can say to you. I feel so thankful for what the Lord has done for me and my family, for truly all things have worked together for our good. … Read More

Today is the first time I’ve seen advertising directed at Mormons that didn’t scream ‘priestcraft.’ Read More

Some fellow who has clearly never talked to a Mormon gives a nice (mis)summation of LDS beliefs in a local paper. (Hat tip: Voldemort). Like many such, he has things to say about Kolob — a lot more, really, than I’ve ever heard at church. Is Kolob even really part of LDS doctrine any more? Read More

Here’s a short quiz, for fun: For each of the following, name the modern-day green-book hymn whose tune was originally associated with these lyrics. 1. To Anacreon in Heav’n, where he sat in full glee, a few Sons of Harmony sent a petition, Read More

Oddly enough, I have never really struggled with belief in God. Read More

The government of Slovakia granted the Church official recognition on October 18. Read More

As soon as my friend said I was a Mormon, the two ladies wanted to know more. Read More

LDS missionaries working on the Isle of Wight, off the coast of England, found the Tippett family in 1859. Read More

Or, Notes from a modern theocracy Continuing the periodic series on Holiday Envy, November 11 is St. Martin’s Day. Read More

In case it may have escaped your notice, Ardis Parshall has been posting and commenting a great deal lately. Actually, she’s so quickly made herself at home here at Times and Seasons, with her superb series of historical posts, as well as her reflections on everything from running a business to doing archival research, all from her own unique yet thoroughly Mormon perspective, that it almost escaped our notice as well. But not quite! So allow this to be a somewhat delayed official introduction of Ardis to the Bloggernacle as T&S’s newest permablogger. Welcome, Ardis! (We’ll be getting you your… Read More

It appears that the reported demise of the Millennial Star blog may have been premature. The blog appears to be alive once more. Read More

In the abstract, there are three possibilities: she was guilty, she was innocent, or she was raped. Read More

How about lyrics which folks (especially children) often mis-hear? My mother was terribly ashamed of her parents when she saw that cherries were included for Sunday lunch, since they had just sung, “Cherries hurt you, cherries hurt you…” (Cherish virtue…) Read More

I was well into my twenties before I finally deciphered one particular line from I Need Thee Every Hour. It was a line that I had certainly sung a hundred times or more: “No tender voice like thine can peace afford.” Read More

It looks as though the nation may be starting to look more like Russell, frightening as that is for some of us. Read More

You’ve heard it here first: it may take a day or two, but Jon Tester is going to come out the winner of the senate race in Montana; and it may take a few weeks, but Jim Webb is going to be confirmed the winner of the senate seat from Virginia. And that will mean… Read More

Could there be a Mormon political party? Should there be? Read More

I teach all of the youth in my ward. I suspect this is because nobody else will do it. Also, most of the youth (whether or not I’ve given birth to them) pretty much live at my house. So I am very able to tell them to behave and get a quick response. Read More

I was 15 when the American POWs came home from Vietnam. Read More

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Annie Griffith was born on August 27, 1837, in Georgetown, Essex Co., Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River near the New Hampshire state line. She lived in that county all her life. Read More

How big of a deal is technology theologically speaking? Read More

If we’ve learned one thing in the past week, it is this: Mice are not good Mormons. Read More

For many years, northern Bavaria had a duplicate Church geography, with a stake for American servicemen sharing the boundaries of a German district. Read More

My sister-in-law, Lynda, is dying of cancer. It was in remission for eight years, but has now returned and is in her bones. Read More

Mormons make an appearance at the important SBL conference. Read More

In 1870, the Utah Territorial Legislature passed an act giving women the right to vote, making Utah the second jurisdiction in the United States to given women the vote. (Wyoming was the first in 1869.) In 1887, Congress revoked the territorial law in the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and women were denied the vote until Utah was admitted as a state in 1896. Less well known is that there was an 1880 judicial attack on women’s suffrage in Utah. Read More