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. …
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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 …
Book Review: Revelation, Resistance & Mormon Polygamy, by Merina Smith
Reviewed by George D. Smith Revelation, Resistance & Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853, Merina Smith (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2013). With this book, Merina Smith, a graduate of the University of Colorado with a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, has synthesized research …
The Curious Case of James Madison Monroe
By Edward Hogan Or, right-click here to download the audio file: The Curious Case of James Madison Monroe IN LATE SEPTEMBER of 1851, Howard Egan left Salt Lake City and headed east determined to find James Madison Monroe, whom he had just found out had been his wife’s lover. On 30 September …
“Texas Has Its Own View of Polygamists”: The Texas FLDS Raids and Trials
By Ken Driggs The 2008 Raid and Search ON 3 APRIL 2008 at 9 a.m., a force of Texas Rangers, sheriff’s deputies, other law officers, and Texas Child Protective Services (TCPS) representatives entered the Yearning for Zion Ranch (YFZ) with the first of two broad search warrants signed by 51st District Court Judge Barbara …