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		<title>Mormonism&#8217;s Last Colonizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Utah State University Press released a biography of William H. Smart. Smart was a missionary in Turkey, later the Eastern States Mission President from 1899-1900 and a Stake President in Utah. He was integral in the post-reservation settlement of the Uintah Basin. To be frank, I have only skimmed through the biography; more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;knowledge, and power, by revelation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[knowledge and power]]></description>
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		<title>A Textual History of the KFD, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KFD Part: 2]]></description>
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		<title>A Textual History of the KFD, Part I: Sources to the &#8220;History of Joseph Smith&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KFD Part: 1]]></description>
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		<title>The end of an era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a chemist by training, but Mormon history has always been open to dilettants (for good and ill). Still, as I ran headlong into the ocean of Mormon historiography, without the mentorship of many I would have been churned and released, to lie recovering on the sand. Without question, the measure that I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research update on Mormon healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 paper, &#8220;&#8216;They Shall Be Made Whole&#8217;: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two latest in Signature&#8217;s Significant Diary Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall 1879-1892 (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2007), 511 pages, clothbound. For some time now, Signature Books has published important (to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lady’s Life among the Mormons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most invaluable publication series in Mormon Studies is Utah State University Press&#8217;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 in a bid to balance the various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elder Ballard&#8217;s Advice&#8211;Start a Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;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 a drastic clarification. For some time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving among the Mormons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps as we celebrate our feasts we will give thanks for our co-religionists who sacrificed much more than we currently do for Zion&#8217;s sake. Besides reading Justin&#8217;s excellent post, the following are a few journal entries of our religious progenitors: Thanksgiving celebrations are quite rare until the later 19th century. One earlier account comes from [...]]]></description>
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