http://www.splendidsun.com/wp Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:35:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some know, Kris and I have worked together for the past couple of years doing research on Mormon healing. Our earliest work has focused on the liturgical aspects of Mormon healing, but we intend to eventually get to medical science as well. We recently found out that our ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/research-update-on-mormon-healing/ John P. Hatch, ed., Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2005), 882 pages, clothbound. Jedediah S. Rogers, ed., In the President's Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall 1879-1892 (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2007), 511 pages, clothbound. For some time now, Signature ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/two-latest-in-the-signatures-significant-diary-series/ One of the most invaluable publication series in Mormon Studies is Utah State University Press's Life Writings of Frontier Women, with Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Series Editor. I have the full quiver of volumes and several have been integral in my research in Mormon liturgical history. This year, perhaps ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/a-ladys-life-among-the-mormons/ I haven't written for a while, and now I feel remiss. Today was graduation day at BYUH, and the visiting apostle, Elder Ballard, told us all to have more of an online presence. This sounded to me like a sea-change in church policy towards the internet, or at least ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/ballards-advice/ Perhaps as we celebrate our feasts we will give thanks for our co-religionists who sacrificed much more than we currently do for Zion's sake. Besides reading Justin's excellent post, the following are a few journal entries of our religious progenitors: Thanksgiving celebrations are quite rare until the later ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/thanksgiving-among-the-mormons/ I am typically an Amazon.com man. I have the free two-day shipping and I love their used and new options. This year, however, we received a couple of gift certificates to Barnes & Noble. I recently decided to use them. The Purchase Unless you want to join ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/review-barnesandnoblecom/ Donald G. Godfrey and Kenneth W. Godfrey, The Diaries of Charles Ora Card: The Utah Years, 1871-1886 (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006), 604 pgs. The first thing you realize when you heft The Utah Years is that they are massive. Sure, the volume isn't bound ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/review-the-diaries-of-charles-ora-card-the-utah-years-1871-1886/ The Harold B. Lee Library Digital Collections has been slowly amassing one of the most important digital archives in Mormon Studies. I just noticed that they have added the Young Women's Journal. I had understood that the Women's Exponent would be up first, but they appear to only ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/now-online-young-womens-journal/ In 1852, years before the handcart pioneers walked west and just one year after the first baptism in Hawaii, the Saints erected their first chapel. It still stands. George Q. Cannon remains somewhat legendary on the islands, but there are other great missionaries that followed. Frank Hammond, ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/maui-pioneers/ Hosea Stout was in charge of police at Nauvoo and Winter Quarters. His diary, edited by Juanita Brooks, is a great treasure, though very rare on the used book market. He wrote mostly of the activities relating to his work, but on occasion we see personality that reflects ... http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/the-death-of-hosea/