{"id":43927,"date":"2022-11-13T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?page_id=43927"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T13:17:32","slug":"recent-comments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/recent-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul id=\"better-recent-comments\" class=\"recent-comments-list\"><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motleyvision.org\" class=\"url\" rel=\"ugc external nofollow\">Kent Larsen<\/a><\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/mormon-studies-books-in-2026\/#comment-563223\">Mormon Studies Books in 2026<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Chad, this is fabulous work. Thank you very much for doing it.    One question:   When you look for reviews of books, are you only looking at the sites you reference here? Or are you doing general searches for reviews of the books?    I ask because I wonder how much I can rely on my assumption that the sites you list are the main sites where LDS books get reviewed (i.e., is it possible that there are other sites out there that review LDS books that you have excluded for some reason, or that you haven\u2019t noticed because of the way you search)?<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 3, 17:28<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Chad Nielsen<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563222\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Kristine, that would be fantastic (Especially since there&#8217;s only 1 out the 10 titles in the series so far that is about a woman.)<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 3, 12:20<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Kristine<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563221\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Chad, I hope the reason not to include Claudia here is that she&#8217;s getting a book of her own in the series. She certainly should!<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 19:58<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">TexasAbuelo<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/judging-in-our-meetings-or-what-did-church-lead-you-to-think-about-yesterday-9-20\/#comment-563219\">Judging in our Meetings (Or What Did Church Lead You to Think About Yesterday), 9\/20<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Alma\u2014- don\u2019t ever recall a fellow bishop using discernment as a \u201ctrump card\u201d.   Sorry you had that experience\u2026 ones I\u2019ve worked with used it to guide them to members needing a word of encouragement or help or strengthening\u2026 not asca gotcha card or some tool of superiority\u2026 anyone doing the latter sure as shooting clearly has lost their way re: what spiritual gifts are for \u2014- to bless and comfort and help<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 15:56<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Chad Nielsen<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563218\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Not a Cougar, Haws shies away from anything that might put Richard Bushman in a negative light, so he discussed what Bushman was trying to achieve (i.e., innoculation through introducing information) and focused on times that succeeded, though he mentioned general authorities being concerned about it. (And I don&#8217;t feel like this is a thread jack to talk about it! I would be interested in what Packer thought too, though I believe he was a driving force in shutting down the history department after encountering Bushman&#8217;s earlier work on Joseph Smith.)    Dave, I have not actually read I, Claudia yet. It&#8217;s on my to-do list, but the book came out when Greg Kofford books was going through a transition of its publicists, and getting me a copy fell through the cracks. I haven&#8217;t bought a copy yet, but hope to get to it someday.<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 14:20<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">RL<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563217\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">I am rereading RSR with my teen age sons and admire the author and his work even more than when I read it when it came. He is a great man and a giant for the faith.  Arrington, Bushman, LTU, and Givens are on my Rushmore of faithful post WW2 LDS historians. Grant Hardy is my 5th and Mauss my 6th.  Happy to live in an era of faithful and smart academics.<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 14:11<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Dave<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563216\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Thanks so much for this review, Chad. Have you read Claudia Bushman&#8217;s memoir (I, Claudia)? I&#8217;ve begun it, and if you&#8217;ve read\/reviewed it, interested on your take given the gap mentioned above.     On the previous comments on the impact of some of RL Bushman&#8217;s books, I can imagine the impact going both ways: some people losing testimony because of Rough Stone Rolling and other people feeling like maybe the Church has space for them if someone writing like Bushman feels comfortable within the institution. (That was my experience, and I&#8217;m still in the Church, many years hence.) One could imagine that Bushman agreed with Packer&#8217;s principle that some things are true but not useful but disagreeing with Packer&#8217;s particular judgment as to which things fall into which category.    I found Bushman&#8217;s diary on the year after publishing Rough Stone Rolling (entitled On the Road with Joseph Smith) to be quite insightful, with different leaders of the Church both praising the value of the book and others indicating that it was faith demoting.<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 14:05<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Not a Cougar<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563215\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Ben, oh most definitely.  Would love to know what President Packer would have had to say of RSR (and apologies to Chad for straying a bit from the post&#8217;s main theme).<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 13:25<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Ben<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563214\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">I think that depends on how one defines \u201cutility.\u201d<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 13:12<\/span><\/div><\/li><li class=\"recentcomments recent-comment\"><div class=\"comment-wrap\"><span class=\"comment-author-link\">Not a Cougar<\/span> on <span class=\"comment-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/a-review-richard-lyman-bushman-a-mormon-ambassador\/#comment-563213\">A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador<\/a><\/span>: &ldquo;<span class=\"comment-excerpt\">Chad, thanks for sharing this. Brother Bushman certainly stands tall among the faithful scholars of the Church. Perhaps J.B. Haws addressed this in the book (or Brother Bushman did himself somewhere else), but I would be interested to hear one of them discuss discuss the impact of his books on the greater Latter-day Saint community. I&#8217;m well acquainted with a few people who point to reading Rough Stone Rolling as the point in their lives when they stop believing the Church to be true. Does Brother Bushman feel any responsibility for that? Certainly he seems to have disagreed with President Packer&#8217;s assessment that there are things that are true that are not useful.<\/span>&rdquo; <span class=\"comment-date\">Oct 2, 13:05<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43936,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43927\/revisions\/43936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}