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The Beguiling of Merlin In this week’s episode of WWE, we’re pleased to present our first guest post! The author is Scott Hales, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Cincinnati who is “in...
View ArticleQuestioning Mormonism
The class was filled with restless teenagers, most of whom I could tell from their jaded body language had little interest in engaging the topic I was assigned to teach on the New Testament. This was...
View ArticleLost and Found Christianities: Bart Ehrman and the Christianicity of Mormonism
Worlds Without End is pleased to present this offering from guest poster Richard D. Lamborn. Richard practices law within the shadow of Yankee Stadium. In addition to a University of Utah J.D., he...
View ArticleA Review of “Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany”
Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany By David Conley Nelson Copyright 2015 University of Oklahoma Press 416 pages ISBN: 978-0-8061-4668-3 $29.95 The contextual place of Mormonism in the...
View ArticleSource Criticism and the Books of Moses and Abraham
Latter-day Saint (LDS) scripture is filled to the brim with biblical quotations, allusions, and echoes that tie back to earlier scriptural writings. The use and interpretation of scripture goes far...
View ArticleCouncil of Fifty minutes: anti-American sentiment, theocratic aspirations,...
Matthew J. Grow, Ronald K. Esplin, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Jeffrey D. Mahas, eds., The Joseph Smith Papers, Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January...
View ArticleThe ghoulish tactics of Dan Peterson and fiendish apologetics
Here I sit waiting for ghouls and goblins to manifest at my door with their insatiable demands for sugar-laden lucre. And while I await my ghoulish doom, I feel compelled to respond to perhaps the...
View ArticleBook Review: “Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait”
Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait: How a Methodist Girl from Hueytown, Alabama, Became an Acclaimed Mormon Studies Scholar By Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, Published by Kofford Books...
View ArticleBook Review: “Please, Please Call Me to the Bishopric!”
Title: Please, Please Call Me to the Bishopric! BY Jett AtwoodPublished: 2019, Number of Pages: 78, Paper bound ISBN: 9781086185157 Price: $10.00 A mother sits on a pew nursing a baby while shushing...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the...
Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions, Edited by: Reid Neilson and Carson Teuscher, Published by: University of Illinois Press Genre: Documentary...
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