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Christopher James Blythe

Christopher James Blythe is a research associate at the Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, as well as the coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History and copresident of the Folklore Society of Utah. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in American Religious History from Florida State University. He is currently co-authoring a book on contemporary Latter-day Saints for Columbia University Press with Philip Barlow and Jan Shipps. His book, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse is due out this summer from Oxford University Press.

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Religion Dispatches
If the worries of most quarantined Christians in the United States center on health and when they might resume their lives, there is a segment that wonders whether this moment has greater biblical…
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Religion Dispatches
Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet On March 18, 2020, at 7:09 in the morning, residents of Salt Lake City and the surrounding counties of northern Utah awoke to a 5.7…
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Religion Dispatches
Apocalypticism was once part of the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but, as was the case with polygamy a few years prior, Church leaders successfully pushed it to the…
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