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This is a little churchy, but hey- today is Sunday. And when one is cataloging 200-year-old pamphlets, the punch lines must be sought & savored. The following comes from Nathanael Emmons, A Discourse, Delivered on the Annual Fast in Massachusetts, April 9, 1801. By Nathanael Emmons, D. D., Pastor of...

I chuckled to Mike Homer on the phone the other day that, if we had been born Presbyterian, life could have been a lot more boring . . .

Long before the specific shelf terminology was employed, Latter-day Saints were scolded into the practice of holding difficult questions - including crucial central theological points - in abeyance indefinitely. When my Utah grandfather was a teenager 125 years ago, here is what he could have heard ...

When I was a young and true-true-blue Idaho Mormon boy of the 1950s, we occasionally visited my maternal grandfather in Hyrum, Utah, a small town in Cache Valley which his father had helped settle as a young man a century earlier. During one of those visits, I happened to look in the fridge, and beh...

Mormon scholar Mike Reed explored this same approach ten years ago. He listed 47 examples of pre-Book of Mormon male Almas on his blog, "Cultural Mormon Cafeteria." Here is a link to his interesting comments posted January 23, 2010: https://culturalmormoncafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=alma+name+male

My friend Michael W. Homer will give a Zoom presentation Thursday evening sponsored by the Masonic Grand Lodge of New York. Mike has found some interesting details from Phelps' early years in Central New York State, before Phelps became the editor of the first Mormon newspaper and publisher of the i...