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Smuggling and Fugitive Slaves

    ***   I was curious to learn the origin of the name Smugglers’ Notch.   It turns out that notch, in the parlance of New Hampshire’s White Mountains and presumably also, is a term for a deep, narrow, mountain pass.  (Hence the name of the electorally famous Dixville Notch, about which we hear […]

Never Forget Them

    ***   As many, many others have over the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking about the 9-11 attacks and, even more so, about their victims.  So many lives snuffed out.  So much pain and sorrow.  My friend Anne Palmieri shared the words below on her Facebook page.  They’re familiar; we all […]

From Smugglers’ Notch

    ***   New today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #72: The Two Ways (Moses 5): Adam, Eve, and the New and Everlasting Covenant (Moses 5:4–6)   ***   We watched the Tabernacle Choir’s  commemorative special on the victims of the September 11th attacks this morning, and […]

Surf New Hampshire!

    ***   A new article, by Jeff Lindsay, went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Book of Abraham Polemics: Dan Vogel’s Broad Critique of the Defense of the Book of Abraham” Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, […]

Temples, all the way down

    ***   I’ve been quite busy today, and I haven’t been at my computer very much.  Here, though, are links to five articles that you might find of interest and that were published in a prior issue of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   William J. Hamblin, “The Sôd […]

Choosing the Kingdom First

    ***   I return to a subject that I raised in my immediately previous blog entry — namely, the seemingly increasing tendency for some members of the Church to put their political ideologies ahead of their loyalty to the prophets and apostles who lead the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I […]

“Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said”

    ***   You may perhaps be aware of the controversy that has recently raged around Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Council of the Twelve.  Last night, Tuesday night, this article by Yr Obd’t Servant went up in Meridian Magazine:   “Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said”   I […]

Developments in Temple Design and Function

    ***   A new article by Richard O. Cowan appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Latter-day Houses of the Lord: Developments in Their Design and Function” Abstract: This essay traces the modern-day usage and understanding of temples from the Kirtland Temple to Nauvoo and the Salt Lake Temple. […]

Personal revelations following the murder of Joseph and Hyrum

    ***   Here are a few additional passages that I marked during my reading of Derek R. Sainsbury’s Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020).  Please note that such stories as these do not constitute the primary or even secondary focus […]

From “Storming the Nation”

    I read Derek R. Sainsbury’s Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020) today.  Here are some random passages that I marked during my reading:   Most Americans do not know that Joseph Smith ran for president of the United States.  Almost […]