Southwestern States Mission: Easter
By April 8, 2012
How did the Elders and the people they met keep Easter?
Southwestern States Mission: Beloved Band of Brethren
By April 1, 2012
Exposure to either this weekend?s General Conference or to some turn-of-the-century Mormon missionary diaries can prompt the same questions: Do the missionaries have any brothers or do they only have brethren? Where are the sistren? And What?s with all the beloving?
Southwestern States Mission: Sharing a bed
By March 25, 2012
In honor of Elder Jones?s late bedtime on 1900 May 27, this week I will discuss two aspects of missionary sleeping arrangements. How often did they share a bed? and How did they feel about it?
Southwestern States Mission: Fasting Frequency
By March 18, 2012
Inspired by Ardis Parshall’s serial posting of the missionary diary of Willard Larson Jones at Keepapitchinin, I announce an occasional series on missionary life in the Southwestern States Mission around 1900.
Women in the Academy: Cynthia Lee
By March 30, 2011
Cynthia has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (2009). She currently works as an independent researcher on projects in Computer Science pedagogy, and occasionally teaches undergraduate courses. She blogs about Mormon life and its intersections with pop culture and feminist issues at ByCommonConsent.
Women in the Academy: Heather Olson Beal
By January 24, 2011
Heather Olson Beal is an assistant professor of education at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She blogs at Doves and Serpents. (Dr Olson Beal is the seventh academic profiled in the “Women in the Academy” series, which Elizabeth Pinborough started in February 2010.)
Mormon Horns 5-7/7: Civil War, Isms, and Miscellanea
By February 6, 2010
In conclusion: Mormon horns have piles of company and most of the folks keeping the idea were (probably still are) Mormon themselves.
Mormon Horns 2-4/7: Meanings, Correlations, and Comparisons
By February 2, 2010
To avoid either dragging out this series inordinately or clogging up The Mormon Archipelago, I’ve broken a seven-part run into three posts with links to sub-pages. The links (to date) are below.
Mormon Horns 1/7: A Selected Chronology
By January 31, 2010
Last year I put up several posts about the construction and assignment of Mormon identity through the naming of animals, plants, places, etc. In the same vein, I hope to spend a few posts examining horns in a Mormon context.
An MHA Seer Stone Photo
By January 23, 2010
Below is my contribution to the travels of the Mormon History Association’s presidential seer stone.
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