Mormon Garments Sacred and Secret Author: Nancy Ross, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred
Happy Pub Date to MORMON GARMENTS: Sacred and Secret by @@nancyross.bsky.social, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred!
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I wrote an 8,000-word scholarly essay explaining why #JohnnyLingo is 💩💩💩. I found out at some point that it was taught in #MormonStudies graduate courses. #8CowWoman
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Joseph An Epic Author: Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Happy Pub Date to JOSEPH: An Epic by Zachary McLeod Hutchins!
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I was very pleased to interview someone from the LeBaron group, Jacob Vidrine of the Church of the Firstborn. He's an encyclopedia of Mormon fundamentalism! #mormonstudies #gospeltangents www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
The Three Nephites Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend Author: Julie Swallow, Christopher James Blythe, Eric A. Eliason, and Jill Terry Rudy
Happy Pub Date to THE THREE NEPHITES: Saints, Service, & Supernatural Legend by Julie Swallow, Christopher James Blythe, Eric A. Eliason, & Jill Terry Rudy!
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Moral Visions Ethics and the Book of Mormon Author: Edited by Courtney S. Campbell and Kelly Sorensen
"LDS moral culture is a much more complicated and nuanced phenomenon."
The Q&A for MORAL VISIONS is live!
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Moral Visions Ethics and the Book of Mormon Author: Edited by Courtney S. Campbell and Kelly Sorensen
Happy Pub Date to MORAL VISIONS: Ethics and the Book of Mormon edited by Courtney S. Campbell and Kelly Sorensen!
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After all this I now finally have a working title for my thesis:
"The Personal is Feminine: Gendered Quotations in LDS Sunday School Manuals" #mormonstudies
Writing my thesis and again strongly feeling the lack of a history of the Sunday School organization. Would really love to cite a single book but nooooo I have to cite eight different news articles and five different interviews I've done. #mormonstudies
Pioneer Day University of Illinois Press
#PioneerDay, celebrated on July 24th in Utah, commemorates the arrival of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
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Here's my 2017 #MormonStudies interview with Dr Brian Hales on his 3 volume set on Joseph Smith's Polygamy: www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
Here is my re-release of my 2017 interview with Brian Hales, just in time for tomorrow's Journal of Mormon Polygamy. Are you going? #MormonStudies gospeltangents.com/2025/03/jose...
Hey #MormonStudies folks! There's now a Discord server! The goal was to have a place outside conventional social media where anyone under the Mormon Studies umbrella could network and collaborate. We also share job postings, calls for papers, and other opportunities. Can't wait to see you there!
Projects are brewing during spring break. (A phrase which should be considered an oxymoron at this point.)
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This is, unsurprisingly, only one of the sources for the infamous "TK Smoothie" that was a pet theology of Joseph Fielding Smith. This is, surprisingly, not the first time I've provided a source for this on this website. #mormonstudies
![YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED BY JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH, president of the council of the twelve
DIFFERENCES IN BODIES IN THE RESURRECTION
Question: "The Lord has revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith that there will be no marriage outside of the celestial kingdom, and even there, only among those who have been faithful to all covenants in mortal life and have been married according to divine law in the temple of the Lord. The question was raised in our class in regard to men and women who are assigned to other kingdoms, also those who are in the celestial kingdom and who are unmarried; what will prevent them from living together outside of the marriage covenant? We assume it to be a fact that females, as well as males, in great numbers will inherit places in these other kingdoms. ''Will you kindly discuss this problem for us?"
Answer: We may well believe that our Eternal Father has fully considered this point and made ample provision to meet the situation. In the Doctrine and Covenants, section 88, we are informed that there will be differences in the bodies of inhabitants of the several kingdoms to meet every need and restriction.
"And they who are not sanctified through the law which I have given unto you, even the law of Christ, must inherit another kingdom, even that of a terrestrial kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom.
"For he who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory.
"And he who cannot abide the law of a terrestrial kingdom cannot abide a terrestrial glory.
"And he who cannot abide the law of a telestial kingdom cannot abide a telestial glory; therefore he is not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory." (D&C 88:22-24.)
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YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED BY JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH, president of the council of the twelve DIFFERENCES IN BODIES IN THE RESURRECTION Question: "The Lord has revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith that there will be no marriage outside of the celestial kingdom, and even there, only among those who have been faithful to all covenants in mortal life and have been married according to divine law in the temple of the Lord. The question was raised in our class in regard to men and women who are assigned to other kingdoms, also those who are in the celestial kingdom and who are unmarried; what will prevent them from living together outside of the marriage covenant? We assume it to be a fact that females, as well as males, in great numbers will inherit places in these other kingdoms. ''Will you kindly discuss this problem for us?" Answer: We may well believe that our Eternal Father has fully considered this point and made ample provision to meet the situation. In the Doctrine and Covenants, section 88, we are informed that there will be differences in the bodies of inhabitants of the several kingdoms to meet every need and restriction. "And they who are not sanctified through the law which I have given unto you, even the law of Christ, must inherit another kingdom, even that of a terrestrial kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom. "For he who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory. "And he who cannot abide the law of a terrestrial kingdom cannot abide a terrestrial glory. "And he who cannot abide the law of a telestial kingdom cannot abide a telestial glory; therefore he is not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory." (D&C 88:22-24.) [continued in next image]
We are informed in this revelation that those who cannot abide any of these kingdoms will also be quickened, that is they will receive the resurrection, but they shall go to their own place, ". . . to enjoy that which they are willing to receive, because they were not willing to enjoy that which they might have received." (Ibid., 88:32.) Since bodies will be raised in the resurrection to suit the condition of each individual, the Lord will assign each man and woman to the place which each has earned. We are fully justified in believing that provision has been made to cover every emergency and condition peculiar to each kingdom. Our own judgment should reveal to us that our Father in heaven would not overlook a matter as vital as this fact that men and women are to be assigned to the several kingdoms which their mortal lives entitle them to obtain. Divine justice will be meted out to each, whether male or female, according to their opportunities to hear and receive his gospel, and based on their free agency to act independently of the commandments and blessing of the Lord. As simple a matter as marriage for eternity and the union of the sexes in eternity has been determined according to the mercy and justice of our Eternal Father. We may conclude that the matter of the sexes was fully considered and the decree entered long before the Garden of Eden or the time when this earth was formed. [continued in next image]
Elder Orson Pratt in a wonderful discourse on the resurrection has given this key to the situation, which must be true, for it seems clear and logical: "In all the works of God, we behold a resemblance among classes; but a variety among individuals belonging to each class. All the planets of our system resemble each other more or less in form; but in magnitude and many other respects, there is a great variety. In every species of animals and plants, there are many resemblances in the general outlines, and many specific differences characterizing the individuals of each species. So in the resurrection: there will be several classes of resurrected bodies; some celestial, some terrestrial, some telestial, and some sons of perdition. Each of these classes will differ from the others by prominent and marked distinctions; yet in each, considered by itself, there will be found many resemblances as well as distinctions. There will be some physical peculiarity by which each individual in every class can be identified." (The Seer, p. 274.) Our own sober judgment teaches us that the Lord in his infinite wisdom and justice, would see to it that the privileges of increase or cohabitation between men and women in these kingdoms would be impossible because of peculiar conditions pertaining to these glories. Is not the sectarian world justified in their doctrine generally proclaimed, that after the resurrection there will be neither male or female sex? It is a logical conclusion for them to reach and apparently is in full harmony with what the Lord has revealed regarding the kingdoms into which evidently the vast majority of mankind is likely to go. However, if members of the Church are faithful and true to the covenants and commandments of the gospel, there is no reason for them to worry about the condition which will prevail in these several kingdoms.
This is the article that Booth is referring to (all images are the same; not enough room for alt text. most alt text in the last image) #mormonstudies
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Would you care to comment on the JFS article in the January Era? I have been counting on a satisfactory love life even in the Telestial, but if he is right it is enough to make a man repent. Can you reassure me?
Today's #mormonstudies tidbit comes from a letter written by T. Y. Booth to George T. Boyd!
Can you think of any Mormon-specific ways of reading a sacred text? Many times when we're told to study the scriptures, it's just vague and general, without a specific description of a practice.
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My first interview with Centennial Park member Tom Bennett (no relation). #MormonStudies www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
With the release of a new Mormon-related show, the #MormonStudies feed wasn't quite capturing what I intended it to capture. It now relies exclusively on hashtags, so *please* tag accordingly. I'm open to ideas of a shorter hashtag or emoji combo though!
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Exciting news! "Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret," co-authored by me, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred, will be published by the University of Illinois Press! Release date TBA#MormonGarments #MormonStudies #LivedReligion #ReligiousStudies #SociologyofReligion #HistoryofReligion
Do you remember Sonia Johnson as a national figure following her excommunication from LDS Church in 1979? If not, here's your chance to learn about her. #mormonstudies www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
Ever wanted to examine polygamy skeptids claims and how to overcome them? Here's my interview from 2022 where Mark Tensmeyer discusses them. This is even more detail than in his chapter of "Secret Covenants" with Cheryl Bruno. #MormonStudies www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
Merry Christmas! My last Book of Mormon interview of 2024 with Brant Gardner! #MormonStudies I was surprised he has created his own "Brant-Gardner Translation." He calls it "Plates of Mormon." We discuss his other new book, "Engraven Upon Plates, Written Upon Paper." www.patreon.com/posts/video-...
