By April 14, 2009
I came across the following article while looking for something else in Samuel Brannan’s The Prophet yesterday. It was authored by Parley P. Pratt and published in May 1845. I had never heard of it or come across it anywhere else [1], and thought readers might find it useful (or at least entertaining).
By April 12, 2009
?That idea has not yet been resolved within your heart and is tormenting it.? [1]
One of my inaugural posts for JI was a spiritual autobiographical account of entering the world of the academic study of religion. And I feel as though a continuation of that autobiography is important and necessary, if only for my own sake.
By April 9, 2009
Kristine Haglund is a stay-in-the-minivan mother of three kids, and the current editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She blames her interest in Mormon history on her father, who gave her a copy of _Mormon Sisters_ when she was 9 years old, and then asked her to give a sacrament meeting talk about Ellis Shipp and Patty Sessions. She blogs full-time, of course, at By Common Consent. Kristine presented these remarks at the Mormonism in the Public Mind conference at UVU on Friday, April 3, 2009.
I am more than a little bit surprised to find myself on a panel with “new media” and “pop culture” in the session title-I grew up mostly without a TV and am inflicting the same deprivation on my children; I’m old enough to have taken a typewriter with me when I went to college; and I grew up in a home where “contemporary” music meant anything post-Mahler, like maybe Copland.
By April 8, 2009
…and don’t worry, it doesn’t mention any salamanders.
By April 6, 2009
Before I start this post, I just want to apologize to all my fellow JIers for my unproductive participation in the blog as of late. Because my primary area of research falls outside of the Mormon History paradigm, I often have to wait for the spirit to move me towards some sort of meaningful post. I still want to put together some concluding thoughts on Mormonism and ethnicity one of these days, but it seems like my dissertation research has kept me pretty busy the last little while. I am hoping to attend at least some of the Mormon History Conference in May since Springfield is quite close to Champaign. Several posts on the Bloggernacle of late (not particularly on JI but as a blog devoted to Mormon history I think this is a good forum for addressing the issue) have made me think about the reality and role of bias in the production of historical scholarship.
By April 5, 2009
Day two of the Mormonism in the Public Mind conference at UVU went very well. See my notes for Day 1 here.
The First Panel, “Political Discourse and the Latter-day Saints” has been reported in a number of places. The Mormon Times reported on Kirk Jowers’ presentation “Did Romeny’s Religion Cost Him the Presidency?” and Thursday’s Keynote speaker, Michael Paulson liveblogged portions of each of the three panel participants on his Boston Globe religion blog, Articles of Faith.
My notes are as follows:
By April 5, 2009
I attended both days of the Mormonism in the Public Mind Conference at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. I took some lazy notes on the first day, so I will provide my notes and links to reports made in other venues. I took much more copious notes on the second day, which I am cleaning up now for posting, probably today. Here is the conference program.
By April 4, 2009
View Elder Andersen’s biography here.
Last October’s General Conference featured a talk by Elder Andersen entitled “You Know Enough”. Never was there a more appropriate talk for review by our readers. 🙂
Elder Andersen has not authored any books that I am aware of. It will be interesting to see if that changes in the coming years.
By April 2, 2009
We recently had a stirring discussion over at BCC concerning the causes of the 1838 conflict in Missouri. Much of the discussion concentrated not on the historical evidence that has survived, but on the role of bias in determining what gets included and what gets left out when individuals narrate the past.
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