Originally published 2011 2017 NEW & UPDATED! I write this article with the intent of introducing the Mormon people to the idea of Mormon Pioneers coming down through Echo Canyon, UT 1866 thinking about what, and/or whom they are worshiping. What I don’t want to do is send the message I’m here to bash, or ridicule the […]
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Mormon Terminology: Ensign
Conference Report, Afternoon Meeting, April, 1961, p. 119; “This Church is the standard which Isaiah said the Lord would set up for the people in the latter days. This Church was given to be a light to the world and to be a standard for God’s people and for the Gentiles to seek to. This […]
In Memory of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Victims
This year, 2015, marks the 158th ‘anniversary’ of a tragedy in Utah history I’m sure Mormons would rather forget. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, you can read about it in an article on our front page you can access here. Today we’re asking Christians to pray that Mormons will be aware of this ugly […]
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Aaron Johnson Intro
Aaron Johnson June 22, 1806 – May 10, 1877 “A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.” — Harry S. Truman Sometimes truth is a hard commodity to come by. For Aaron Johnson’s clan it […]
Thought of the Day: Utah’s Firing Squad
ABC News reported that on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the state of Utah voted to allow the firing squad to be used as a viable tool for the death penalty. The reason this is such a big deal is because of the previous law they passed back in 2004 making lethal injection the preferred method […]
E-mail on Suicide, pt 2
A few weeks ago I posted an article in response to an e-mail we received on the site about our stats on suicides in Utah. Unfortunately I overlooked the fact that I should have posted a link to my article as a response to John in the comments section…sigh… We heard back from him just […]
This is the Place 1847
July 24, 1847 On this day in history, Brigham Young stood in the Salt Lake Valley and declared ‘This is the place’. Contrary to the LDS version of why Brigham and 147 others hiked to the Wasatch Front, the first of many arrived to their new home because of their poor behavior. They were kicked […]
Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints
Journal of Discourses 2:186; “I will take the Government of the United States, and the laws of Missouri and Illinois, from the year 1833 to 1845, and if they had been carried out according to their letter and spirit, they would have strung up the murderers and mobocrats who illegally and unrighteously killed, plundered, harassed, […]
19th Century Marriage Customs
While gathering info for our Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders series I kept noticing a common occurrence in the lives of these men. The issue for this article isn’t about polygamy (that’s for another day), rather my focus is on the age of the girls these men married. I refer to them as girls because […]
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Joseph Young
Joseph Young April 7, 1797 – July 16, 1881 This man’s life is another example of how Mormons view themselves as a people group. Both he and they are somehow oblivious to the outside world and most importantly God’s word. There are many instances in historical records where Joseph Young is affectionately referred to as […]