Tagged with "Church History"
Missionary history: The first missions to England were daring and inspired
MR says: Did you know in 1851 there were more Mormons in the British Isles than in Utah? During a Sunday meeting on June 4, 1837, in the year-old Kirtland Temple, Joseph Smith approached Heber C. Kimball, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Brother Heber,” Joseph spoke quietly into his ear,...
Opinion: Anti-Mormonism as the American Religion?
MR says: Interesting. The author is not saying that anti-Mormonism is common or even acceptable, merely that the form its taken in America is directly correlated to the development of America's religious history. It has become a common refrain to refer to Mormonism as the “American religion.” Leo Tolstoy...
The Jewish “Gentile” Governor in Utah
MR says: Cool little snapshot of history in Utah and the first non-Mormon, democratic governor of Utah: a Jewish man that faithfully defended Mormons. In my early years of graduate school, I became interested in a project that compared mainstream American attitudes toward Mormons and Jews during the...
Mormon one-size-for-all Sacramental goblet was a casualty of the progressive era
MR says: Super interesting facet of Church history and LDS culture. Did you know that the influenza epidemic was a large factor in the use of goblets being discontinued? I was talking to an elderly woman in my LDS ward and I asked her if her father had mentioned partaking of the Sacrament in a large ward...
Car rolls into Mormon chapel at Joseph Smith Memorial Site
MR says: The accident was unintentional; estimates as to damage have not been released yet. A parked car rolled into the chapel at the Joseph Smith historical site early Thursday evening after its emergency brake apparently failed, according to Vermont State Police. Police said the 1997 Nissan Pathfinder...
From the Archives: The Young Woman’s Journal Reacts to the First Sister Missionaries
MR says: It's cool to read these historical accounts of how things changed in the Church. Two weeks ago I posted an excerpt from GQ Cannon’s announcement of the decision to formally call female missionaries. Today I look at the response in The Young Woman’s Journal (YWJ). [1] The first official, female,...
What older newspapers reported about Mormons
MR says: Brief and fascinating read. Tom Kemp has searched extensively for mentions of Latter-day Saints in older newspaper archives. And for the director of genealogy products for GenealogyBank, a newspaper digitization archive, the biggest surprise was the amount of positive information he found from the...
New Mormon pageant in the UK this summer: 'Truth Will Prevail'
MR says: How cool! Hopefully this will further strengthen the British Saints and create more interest in the Church there. Latter-day Saints in the British Isles are excited and busily preparing for a summer of celebration in 2013. The United Kingdom is to play host to a new pageant of The Church of Jesus...
Salt Lake Buddhist temples have Protestant, Mormon roots
MR says: Kind of cool. One of the temples has Mormon roots, and it's cool to read about the building's history. Two Buddhist temples dot Salt Lake City’s urban core. Both are housed in historic structures, serve a diverse population and preach about the transitory nature of human life. One of these...
Event Marks 183rd Anniversary of Book of Mormon Printing
Missionaries from the New York Rochester Mission celebrated the coming forth of the Book of Mormon at the Grandin Building in Palmyra, New York, on March 26. The event marked the 183rd anniversary of the date in 1830 when the Book of Mormon first became available for purchase in the store owned and...
I’m Bored: Responses to Mormonism in the Pacific
MR says: Really interesting history of Mormons in New Zealand and Tahiti. She makes an interesting point that Mormonism isn't always met with violence or excitement; most often it's more a shrug of the shoulders. This week, I am traveling throughout New Zealand and Tahiti, partially as a vacation and...
Historic LDS newspaper volume presented at auction
MR says: These pieces of Church history are always cool to see. A volume of early issues of The Latter-day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, one of the earliest publications in LDS Church history, was up for bid at the semiannual Americana auction at the Swann Auction Gallery, but did not sell. Based in...
Boycotting General Conference 50 Years Ago: The Lamanite Generation, the American Indian Movement, and Temple Square
MR says: A really interesting bit of history. A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at the University of Michigan on what benefits there might be to considering Utah as a settler colonial space. As part of a section on the political implications of adopting such a posture, I included some photos of the...
Welcome to a New Mormon Studies Blog: Unusual Excitement, a Claremont Production
MR says: For those who enjoy academic research of Mormon history and culture, a new blog to look for. Whether for good or ill, blogging has become a public facet of the academy in general, and Mormon studies in particular. We at JI are proud to be the first blog exclusively devoted to the scholarly study of...
100 years since Booker T. Washington’s historic visit to the Mormons
MR says: Pretty cool history. In late March 1913, the most prominent African-American of his generation, Booker T. Washington, traveled cross-country to, in his words, “get right into the midst of the Mormons to see what kind of people they are, what they look like, what they are doing, and in what respect...
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