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Harry Reid, who died at 82 of pancreatic cancer on Tuesday, held many titles over his life: Senate majority leader, U.S. representative, lieutenant governor, Nevada Boxing Hall of Famer —
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D. Michael Quinn was once among Mormonism’s most celebrated historians, lauded for his memory, work ethic and charisma even prompting predictions that he would become the official historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or one of the faith’s governing apostles.
Quinn, who was discovered dead Wednesday of unspecified causes at his home in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., saw no conflict between the church’s history and his faith.
Still, his compulsion to understand every detail of the Latter-day Saint past, starting in his teen years in the 1960s, put him on a collision course with his church. It would culminate in September 1993, when the Yale-trained scholar was drummed out of Utah-based church for apostasy based on his historical writings about women and the priesthood, along with polygamy.
Jana Riess: Why Latter-day Saints may be selling the ‘restoration’ short by focusing on ‘one true church’
Author Patrick Mason says God’s plan is to heal the world. It includes the LDS Church, but isn’t limited to it.
(Jeremy Harmon | Tribune file photo) Patrick Mason speaks while recording the 100th episode of the Mormon Land podcast in 2019. His new book is Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World.
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“This is the restored church.”
“This is the restored gospel.”
Those are common enough sentences in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They’re in our curriculum and our General Conference talks. They’re spoken in sacrament meeting as a matter of course.
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Nearing his 90th birthday, Richard Lyman Bushman is the godfather, or, should we say, the patriarch of Mormon history.
As an emeritus history professor at Columbia University, with a chair of Mormon studies named in his honor at the University of Virginia, and the author of “Rough Stone Rolling,” the much-heralded biography of church founder Joseph Smith, Bushman is revered as a gentle, thoughtful scholar, who explores the past and present of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with an evenhanded but deft touch.
He is married to the inimitable Claudia Lauper Bushman, also an American historian, scholar, and writer who helped found Exponent II, a feminist magazine for Latter-day Saint women. The couple have six children.