Archive | October 2011
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Pre-Halloween Mormon Massacre
How do you write a Mormon-themed Halloween post? Â Thanks to SamBee at StayLDS, I was reminded that Oct 27 marks the 173rd “anniversary” of the Extermination Order. Â Even more gruesome is the fact that today, Oct 30, is the 173rd anniversary of the Haun’s Mill Massacre–a true horror-story fit for any Halloween tale.
Woodruff's Vision of the Founding Fathers
Stephen Taysom put together a collection of essays in a new book titled Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader. Topics include biographies, theory, experience, memory, and media/literature with authors such as Newell Bringhurst, Larry Foster, and Jonathan Stapley (to name a few.) Many of us are familiar with Wilford Woodruff’s vision of the Founding […]
Heretics, Jesus, and Jarrod's Problem
Life has been unusually busy of late. Sorry I haven’t posted very often–I’ll try to get back on track. A lot of my posts take some time to research, but Jarrod gave me a softball. Rather than leave his comments on my “About page, I thought I could churn out a quick post (requiring no […]
Mormon Heretic 