Osmondmania: The Latter-day Saint Family Who Took the UK by Storm as "Musical Missionaries"
by Fred E. Woods | November 18, 2019 | Famous Mormons Mormon Life
In the 1970s, the Osmond family thrilled throngs of screaming fans with performances throughout the United ...
Cecil B. DeMille and David O. McKay: A Surprising Friendship
by Fred E. Woods | Fun Mormon Life
In some ways, the two men were polar opposites. DeMille was an icon in the 20th-century film industry who d...
Uniting East and West: Latter-day Saints and the Transcontinental Railroad
by Fred E. Woods | Makes You Think
When the coast-to-coast telegraph was completed in Salt Lake City in October 1861, Brigham Young sent a cle...
The Faith of the Scottish Saints + How the View of the Church Is Changing in Scotland
by Fred E. Woods and Jannalee Sandau | Mormon Life
“I knew in whom I had trusted, and with the fire of Israel’s God burning in my bosom, I forsook my ho...
The Unbelievable True Story of Saints Shipwrecked on Their Way to Zion
by Professor Fred E. Woods | Mormon Life
Several days before embarking on the ship Julia Ann , Australian Latter-day Saint John Perkins wrote in his...
Sacrament Over the Internet, Church in Sub-Zero Weather + Other Things You Didn't Know About Saints in Alaska
by Fred E. Woods and Jannalee Sandau | Mormon Life
The story of how the Church came to be in the cold, northern climate of Alaska is truly the story of one ma...
The Country With the Largest Number of Mormons Per Capita and How Members Live Their Faith
by Fred E. Woods and Devan Jensen, with Katie Lambert | Mormon Life
Mormon missionaries first arrived in Tonga in 1891, in the midst of a sea of religious turmoil, landing on ...
"They Called It Hell, and We Called It Heaven": The Story of Exiled Mormons in Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement
by Professor Fred E. Woods, Brigham Young University | Mormon Life
To most of us, leprosy is a disease that only existed in Biblical times and meant misery and exile. But to ...
