Joseph Smith Archive

  • 40 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “From Zina to Henry”

    Posted on January 13, 2013 | 8 Comments
    "Miles away my lips / taste the prophet's skin / moist with salt . . . "

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  • 38 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith”

    Posted on January 3, 2013 | 3 Comments
    "If I were permitted selfishness, I'd ask God to / catch a ram inside a thicket, send an angel down / to smite the chains that bind my will."

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  • Grondahl Restored

    Posted on October 27, 2012 | No Comments
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.  This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of  The Sunstone Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Ride to Church (History Sites in Palmyra, New York)

    Posted on August 12, 2012 | No Comments
     In June, we took a family vacation to New York.   We spent 6 days in New York City and then rented a car and drove to upstate New York.   We met my in-laws in Palmyra, where founding events of the Mormon church took […]

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  • Grondahl 28

    Posted on August 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.  This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of  The Sunstone Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Grondahl 23

    Posted on June 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Return and Report: The Sense of an Ending

    Posted on April 10, 2012 | 9 Comments
    What was the line Adrian used to quote? 'History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.'

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  • A gift of bread or stones?

    Posted on February 23, 2012 | 5 Comments
    If a gift harms someone, is it really a gift? Can we tell the difference between bread and rocks, or do we need to read some parables again?

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  • Grondahl Restored 5

    Posted on January 9, 2012 | 4 Comments
    This one’s from Marketing Precedes the Miracle, published in 1987. The later cartoons are more detailed, and a bit edgier than the earlier ones. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation, the publisher, and  Calvin Grondahl. Check […]

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  • Reboots: Comic Book Heroes, Origin Stories and Mormon Myth

    Posted on December 18, 2011 | 6 Comments
    As a kid I read a lot of comic books.   I enjoyed studying the intricate  character storylines consisting of their origin stories, their many adventures and their overlapping histories with other super heroes. The result was an impressive creation, a  universe akin to the […]

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  • Going there

    Posted on May 8, 2011 | 6 Comments
        Virya is a Sanskrit word that is most often used in spiritual circles to refer to the energetic push or effort it takes a person to progress spiritually. This week, I found a curious new definition for the term virya, it was defined […]

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  • The Good Book

    Posted on April 23, 2011 | 3 Comments
    I love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I love it. It doesn’t happen often enough, but when we returned home from a recent trip out of town, there was a lovely hardback book […]

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 16

    Posted on November 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
    William Law is 'linking' to the Expositor.

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 8

    Posted on October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
    An image has been discovered in the FB archives.

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 6

    Posted on October 15, 2010 | 9 Comments
    Recommendations from the Prophet Joseph's 'visual bookshelf'.

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  • Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’

    Posted on October 8, 2010 | 11 Comments
    Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the bizarre  ‘Rotoscope’ animation technique, (also used in A Scanner Darkly, 2006)  jars the viewer, challenging us to take on the tension between the cartoon fabric […]

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