In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her...

Longtime LDS educator Grant H. Palmer suggests that most Latter-day Saints remain unaware of the significance of these discoveries. He therefore gives a brief survey of the literature for all who have ever wanted to know more about the New Mormon History. He finds that what we take for granted as literal history has been tailored over the years for missionary purposes--slightly modified, added to, one aspect emphasized over another--to the point that...

Mr. Krueger's Christmas: The true message of Christmas is shared by a widower with whomever he meets. The restoration: On a spring day in 1820 a young man approached God with a question. In answer to that humble prayer, God, our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ appeared. Their visit began the restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our time. The nativity: A re-enactment of the nativity scene of the birth of Jesus Christ...

"An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding...

When Brigham Young led his Mormon followers westward, polygamy was taught as doctrine...not as an option, but as a requirement for exaltation. Joesph Smith had proclaimed it to be an everlasting covenant, a commandment from God himself. In spite of the modern LDS Church's prohibition of the practice, tens of thousands of Joseph Smith's followers across North America continue the practice of plural marriage to this day... out of obedience to the revelations...

"Morgan Davis and his family have moved, along with many of their fellow Saints from the Muddy River Mission, to Long Valley in southern Utah. There they are invited by their prophet, Brigham Young, to embark on a new venture: the United Order. But creating Zion is not an easy task when so many personalities and needs come together"--

This is a remarkable and controversial book by any standards. The verdict is still out on whether its author Ann Eliza Young (formerly Webb) presented her case with complete impartiality, but certainly its contents are sufficiently detailed to reveal shocking and extraordinary details of her experiences during her time as a pluralist wife of Brigham Young of the Latter-Day Saints. A child of Mormon parents, Ann entered into her marriage with Young...

How should a historian depict a man's life when that man, and his religion, remain a mystery to so many 200 years after his birth? Bushman, an emeritus professor at Columbia University and author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, greatly expands on that previous work, filling in many details of the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and carrying the story through to the end of Smith's life. Many continue...

After 25 years of a loving, monogamous marriage, and raising ten children together in a committed LDS household; Mother’s beloved husband, the LDS Seminary teacher and summertime lumberjack, became acquainted with a polygamous family. Dad was insistent Mother study this new-found “lifestyle.” Dad chose to enter into polygamy. I was the eldest child in the family at this time. In 2018, I received an email from Adam Foster, one of Dad’s children...