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August 2015

August 07, 2015

A Review and a Farewell: Of Manuscripts and Seer Stones

I've been, as Mormons say, "less active" here at the blog for the past few...

December 2014

December 05, 2014

Post-Civil War Communalism and the Lamoni Order

Few experiments in religious communalism better exemplified the blending of American industry with religious socialism...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

The Restoration and War

Written on Memorial Day, 2014 This is my first Memorial Day home after...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

Going to Church in Exile..or Why Denominations Still Matter

As I have moved farther and farther away from the Independence, Missouri headquarters of the...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Ordaining Women Is Not Going Away for LDS

The issue of women’s ordination in the LDS church is at least in its fourth...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Community of Christ Sings: A New Hymnal for a Divided Global Church

“You hold in your hands a vital mission tool!” proclaims the foreword of the Community...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The “Value” of the Book of Mormon

As part of a project I’m currently at work on, I’ve been reading as systematically...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Joseph Smith the Seeker and Same-sex Marriage: The Community of Christ Negotiating Change

The Community of Christ’s April 2013 USA National Conference in Independence, Missouri resoundingly approved...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Conferences at the Crossroads of Mormonism

When April comes to Independence, Missouri, Latter Day Saints will go to conference. Community of...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

French Polynesia and Mormonization: Rethinking Mormon Origins

On January 3, the Community of Christ’s First Presidency called Maureva M. Arnaud Tchong to...

November 2012

November 11, 2012

Latter Day Conversions: Divided Families and Reconciled Relationships

As a twenty-year old leader in my college youth group, I was asked one day...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

Emma Smith and Ecumenical Miscommunication

July 10 was the 208th birthday of Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of Joseph Smith,...

May 2012

May 14, 2012

A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a Space

The LDS church has purchased the site of the most infamous event of the 1838...