by Christopher C. Smith Christopher C. Smith is a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University and is completing a dissertation on early Mormon views of Native Americans. Stage 1, 1860–1861: Théodule Devéria The first hints of difficulties with the Book of Abraham appeared in the late 1850s when French scholar Théodule Devéria wrote …
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Sunstone West 1993, 22: Whoa Man, What’s Not History? Hugh Had Better Believe It
From the 1993 Sunstone West Symposium Presentation: Whoa, Man, What’s Not History? Hugh Had Better Believe It Presenters: Chair: Matthew Hulse Samuel W. Taylor, author, Nightfall at Nauvoo Newell Bringhurst, instructor, History and Political Science, College of the Sequoias Abstract: How intellectually honest was Hugh Nibley’s attack on Fawn Brodie’s biography of Joseph …
Practicing Stewardship in a Consumer Culture
By Rachel Mabey Whipple We live in a consumer society—all about spending, acquiring, cluttering, and replacing rather than about maintaining, repairing, renewing, and protecting. It is cheaper to buy the new than to repair the old. We live in a disposable country: everything is trash—if not now then soon. How did we get here? …
“With Reverence and Care!”
Hugh W. Nibley, one of Mormonism’s most prominent social critics, was a wonderful model for how to walk the fine line of openly challenging attitudes and practices in LDS culture while still being influential among most segments of the community. He accomplished this through clear demonstrations of his own personal loyalty to the gospel and …