How Clark Misused Genealogy, Basketball, and Hübener in Nazi Germany
As I mentioned last week, LDS Missionaries were frequently persecuted before Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, but Dr. David Conley Nelson details several questionable problems when the LDS Church...
View ArticleTop 20 Countdown
In the spirit of the Tare-ific/Wheaties Award, I thought it would be fun to look back at the interviews I did this year. (Thanks Niklaus for nominating me for a Wheaties Award!) Here were some things...
View ArticleTare-ific/Wheaties Nominations Update 2017!
Alright, we got a bunch of great nominations last week! I’m sorting this from fewest to most nominations. (We didn’t get many Tare-ific Nominations! Tarefic Awards What was the worst excommunication...
View ArticleGeorge Potter Looks for Mt. Sinai & Nephi’s Trail
Christians and Jews have long searched for the real Mount Sinai. But is it the location discovered by Helena, the mother of Constantine in the 4th century AD? Most people think it is not. George...
View ArticleQuesting for Heavenly Mother
Initially, I resisted reading Rachel Hunt Steenblik’s book Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother. Honestly, I worried this poetry collection might wind up serving as verses 5-200 of the...
View Article5 Questions for Jonathan Stapley on The Power of Godliness
Jonathan A. Stapley is an award-winning historian and scientist. An active participant in the field of Mormon Studies, he is also the Chief Technology Officer for a bio-renewables company. He is a...
View ArticleBook Review: Mormons and Musicals
For two years, there’s been an expensive hardcover biography of Joseph Smith sitting unread in my living room. I may never get around to reading it. To me, Joseph Smith’s life is starting to feel like...
View ArticleSignature Books Comes to YouTube
Just in time for a pandemic which ain’t going away any time soon, Signature Books has set up a YouTube channel. For readers of Mormon fare, the new channel will be a great way to sample book releases...
View ArticleWineskin: Freakin’ with Jesus Et Al.
“…That’s my earliest memory. Meeting the devil.” Michael Hicks, Doctor of Musical Arts, Professor (retired) at Brigham Young University Michael Hicks’s memoir Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and...
View ArticleBook Review – Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
The long-awaited sequel to the 2008 Massacre at Mountain Meadows has finally arrived!1 Published by Oxford University Press, Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath was...
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