Book Review: Kingdom of Nauvoo

Title: Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier Author: Ben Park Published by: Liveright   Genre: History Year Published: 2020Number of Pages: 324Available in : Cloth & Digital ISBN: 978-1-613149-486-4 Price: Cloth, 28.95; … Continue reading

Book Review: The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History

The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History by Darren Parry, Published by: BCC Press, Published in 2019  Number of Pages: 165Binding: Paper  ISBN:  978-1948218207Price: 9.95     Site of the Bear River Massacre, known as Boa Ogoi to the Northwestern Shoshone … Continue reading

Review: Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room

Title: Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room Author: Rod Decker Published by: Signature Books, 2019, 404 pages, Paper binding  ISBN:  978-1560852728, Price: 24.95 Candidates debate during the 2019 Salt Lake City mayoral race. One is Mormon and one is not, … Continue reading

NO BEATLE CUTS!

The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show At the 2019 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium Clair Von Barrus, Todd Compton, and Harold Peterson delivered a fun and fascinating session called “The Beatles, Rock and Roll, and Mormonism”  Todd Compton Reads his … Continue reading

First Impressions: BYU New Testament Commentary Series, “The Revelation of John the Apostle”

Since the very first rumblings I heard of the planned exhaustive BYU New Testament Commentary Series, I was both extremely excited, and a little nervous. Part of the excitement was due to the notice that part of the commentary would … Continue reading