By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Title: Mormon History Association 2009 CONFERENCE Location: SPRINGFIELD, IL Link out: Click here Description: Located in central Illinois Springfield is the capital of the State of Illinois with a population of 116,482. It was first settled in 1820 by trappers and traders and was first called Calhoun for Senator John C. Calhoun [...]
By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Title: Church of Lies Author: Flora Jessop and Paul T. Brown Publisher: Jossey-Bass Genre: Mormon Fundamentalism; Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS); Child abuse Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 296 Binding: Cloth ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-0-7879-9462-4 [...]
By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Title: Men and Angels Author: James C. Christensen Publisher: Greenwich Workshop Press Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 255 Binding: Hardback ISBN-10: n/a ISBN-13: 978-0-86713-102-4 Price: $85.00 [...]
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By Donnie - Last updated: Monday, February 16, 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: From mormontimes.com Elder Daniel H. Ludlow, 84, former director of the Correlation Department for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; college professor; and editor of the “Encyclopedia of Mormonism” died Feb. 14, 2009, at his home in Provo of causes [...]
By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A thief posed as a student to steal centuries-old documents about the origins of the Catholic church in Scotland worth thousands of pounds.
By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Police are trying to trace a man who has disappeared since his arrest over the theft of rare books from the Royal Horticultural Society in London.
By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Associated Press From the Chicago Tribune SALT LAKE CITY – If the past is a window to the present, then a new book about polygamy among early Mormons could be a portal to understanding where some contemporary Utah polygamists have found [...]
By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Editors Note: I felt this book did a better job at explaining the issue than the reviewer did. Though not a complete treatment of the subject I did find that it did try to explain the church’s official position on the subject.
By Donnie - Last updated: Saturday, February 7, 2009

A rare vintage car on the auction block this weekend will likely fetch $4 million.
By Donnie - Last updated: Saturday, February 7, 2009
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Mary Jordan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 6, 2009; Page A14 LONDON, Feb. 5 — Three Christian groups in Britain are putting ads on city buses proclaiming that there is a God, a reaction to a high-profile atheist campaign here that has spread [...]