By D. Michael Quinn D. Michael Quinn is the award-winning author of many articles and books on Mormon history including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature, 1998) and the upcoming The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power (Signature, 2016). Prologue I was recently asked1 to describe the background of the 97-page …
Tag: polygamy
Plural Marriage Among Early Latter-day Saints
By George D. Smith George D. Smith is the award-winning author of Nauvoo Polygamy “. . . but We Called It Celestial Marriage” (Signature Books, 2011). On 22 October 2014, the LDS Church published its most frank essay on the 19th-century origins of Mormon plural marriage, practiced in secret among nearly 200 families in …
The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston
By Charles Elden Kingston CHARLES ELDEN KINGSTON became interested in history while serving a mission in Salt Lake City at the Church History Library. He is the great-grandson of Charles William Kingston. Or download the audio file here: The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston The stories of church founders are never complete …
Polygamy and the Early Mormon Hawaiian Mission
By John J. Hammond John J. Hammond has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught political science and philosophy at Kent State University for thirty-five years, retiring in 2007. For the past fourteen years, he has enjoyed researching Mormon topics. Or right-click here to download the audio. …
Tyrants of the Spirit
By Dorothy Allred Solomon Dorothy Allred Solomon is the author of In My Father’s House and Daughter of the Saints. She has appeared on The Today Show and Oprah. Or right-click here to download the audio. Seven years after law enforcement had come down on polygamists, my poor father was collecting …
Danites, Damsels, and World Domination: Mormons in the Dime Novels
By Michael Austin Michael Austin is co-editor of the Mormon Image in Literature series from Greg Kofford Books, which includes annotated reprints of 19th-century novels about Mormons including many of the works mentioned in this article such as The Doomed Dozen, The Bradys among the Mormons, and Eagle Plume: The White Avenger. Or …
Sunstone 1991, 118: The “One Anointed and Appointed”: An Analysis of Polygamist Priesthood Authority
From the 1991 Sunstone Symposium Presentation: The “One Anointed and Appointed”: An Analysis of Polygamist Priesthood Authority Presenters: Chair: Anne Wilde Brian C. Hales, M.D. J. Ma Anderson, architect; author, The Polygamy Story: Fiction and Fact Fred Collier, writer; publisher, Doctrines of the Priesthood Abstract: The modern polygamy movement boasts more participants today than …
Review of “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men” by Carol Lynn Pearson
by Stephen Carter WHAT IS IT that bothers mainstream Mormons about polygamy? Carol Lynn Pearson asked this question in a 2014 online survey and received more than 8,000 responses, 51 percent of them from active Mormons. Often the respondents left stories of their own encounters with polygamy in an answer box at the end of …
Pilot Program: Making Polygamy Personal
Reviewed by Stephen Carter A blossom of faith That’s what opened in front of Abigail—just for an instant—when her stake president called her and her husband, Jacob, to be part of a pilot program to reintroduce plural marriage into the Mormon Church. Everything in her brain said no. But that blossom. Like most of us …
Update: Issue 174
Same-Sex Marriage Temporarily Legalized in Utah Federal Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled on 20 December 2013 that Utah’s Amendment Three, Article 1 Section 29, which defines marriage as being solely between a woman and a man, is unconstitutional. “The state’s current laws deny its gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry and, in so …