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The Spirit -- The Meaning in Small Changes
Some time ago I offered this note about Lorenzo (Dow) Barnes. I also quoted a couple of excerpts from Joseph Smith’s eulogy for Barnes. Like all the funeral sermons, this one demonstrates a fair… more →
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The Spirit -- The Meaning in Small Changes
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Some time ago I offered this note about Lorenzo (Dow) Barnes. I also quoted a couple of excerpts fro … more →
Cotton Mather - and Scripture
wrote 2 months ago: A new edition of Cotton Mather’s Biblical Commentary (Biblia Americana) is beginning publicati … more →
What did Joseph Smith's Sermons Mean to Latter-day Saints?
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wrote 2 months ago: What did Joseph Smith’s sermons mean to the Mormons? This is a large question, and one I will … more →
Lorenzo Snow - Mormonism and Oberlin College, part I.
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wrote 2 months ago: The brilliant Lyman Beecher who held anti-slavery views (and whose children exceeded his own fame) w … more →
W. W. Phelps and Mother in Heaven
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wrote 3 months ago: This is not really about the idea of a Mother in Heaven, indeed it is only tangential to a very smal … more →
Albert Brisbane - Joseph Smith and Eschatology
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wrote 3 months ago: This post has been sitting around for a while, has something to do with Joseph Smith’s sermons … more →
More yet - Boap.org and Early Saints' Journals, etc.
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wrote 4 months ago: One of my favorite things on boap.org is the ever growing collection we call in house, “Early … more →
More Stuff on Boap.org - Doctrine and Covenants Studies
wrote 4 months ago: This is late for the LDS Sunday school’s Doctrine and Covenants-church history study, but it m … more →
William, Rosanna and Ephraim Marks--Sources?
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wrote 4 months ago: I’m away from home, and hence away from archive heaven, but not wanting to be completely idle, … more →
Joseph Smith and Catholicism
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wrote 5 months ago: During Joseph Smith’s youth it is unlikely that he knew many or perhaps any, Catholics. The Ne … more →
Jonathan Grimshaw and Honorable Doubts, Part 3.
wrote 5 months ago: For part 1 of this post see here. Part 2, here. By 1855, Jonathan had been involved in all the activ … more →
The Parallel Joseph-A History?
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wrote 6 months ago: Years ago, I can’t remember when we started to do it exactly, but we began to collect Joseph S … more →
Jonathan Grimshaw and Honorable Doubts, Part 2
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wrote 6 months ago: See part 1 of this post here. The Grimshaws arrived in Salt Lake City sometime near the latter part … more →
On Slavery - 4
wrote 1 year ago: Cotton Harvest, U.S. South,1850s Reference BLAKE4, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by t … more →
Howe Wins 2008 Pulitizer Prize for History
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wrote 1 year ago: Daniel Walker Howe’s (right) 2007 book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, … more →
