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When Good Stuff Hurts

05.01.2007 · Posted in LDS History, Mainstreaming, Testimony, Values

My sympathy to the bishops who have to deal with the anxieties of members who watched the Frontline documentary The Mormons. But lets face it, it’s going to get a lot worse during the presidential campaign. However painful, Helen Whitney’s work is affording Mormons a soft landing. Views: 806 ...

Stinker

04.23.2007 · Posted in Humor, LDS History, Nostalgia, Polygamy

My mother is 77 (let’s say it all together..) “bless her heart”. She has severe senile dementia, congestive heart failure and is a breast cancer survivor. She is, in a nutshell, A Survivor. She has also reverted back to that state of a child where she’s lost certain social proprieties that have heretofore been an ...

Ancestry I’m not so proud of…

04.03.2007 · Posted in Genealogy, LDS History, Moving On

Like many multi-generational mormons and former mormons, I have mixed feelings about my ancestry. Because of the obsession with genealogy, I actually have an extensive knowledge about just who my ancestors were. Hueffenhardt’s post about genealogy got me thinking. I have many ancestors that I’m proud of. Some who crossed the plains as pioneers. One ...

My Pilgrimage to Zion

03.26.2007 · Posted in Community of Christ, Culture, LDS History

Although my graduate work was in Medieval European history, I’ve also always had a fascination with my own family history, which, by extension, includes Mormon history. Since we got together ten years ago, my partner Mike and I have done a lot of research in Mormon history. We also do a lot of Mormon history ...