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The Sacred Psychology of Pulling a Handcart
What makes Pioneer Trek spiritually significant? It builds resilience, identity, and spiritual connection.
Nidsa Mouritsen Tarazon
July 23, 2025
What makes Pioneer Trek spiritually significant? It builds resilience, identity, and spiritual connection.
Latter-day Saints are a notably peaceful people. What keeps their communities nonviolent?
Can Netflix’s ‘American Primeval’ justify its fictional Brigham Young? No, it fosters cultural bias under artistic license.
How do Latter-day Saints navigate the US Constitution and their faith’s history? It’s a complex picture with both gratitude and warnings.
What makes This Is The Place so special? It represents the pioneers, their struggles, diversity, and the quest for freedom.
Scripture mandates saints care for the poor and needy, but greed and indulgence prevail. Prophets condemn materialism, saying true religion is mercy and honesty. Still, surplus property remains elusive.
How does faith reshape identities and destinies? Pioneer stories vividly showcase William Clayton’s journey from businessman to Saint, Zina D. H. Young’s acceptance of plural marriage, and Levi Savage Jr.’s transformation from independent thinker to devoted follower.
A conversation with Mauli Bonner, who with Tamu Smith, were the trailblazing force in establishing new monuments to Black pioneers arriving in Utah in 1847 – and whose work also points towards a vibrant path of racial healing in America today.
We wanted to draw your attention to a segment on the new show “American Built.” The show features major architectural and engineering projects across the United States. Their most recent episode featured the development of the Tabernacle at Temple Square. The brief eight-minute video looks at the specific challenges the pioneers faced, and the ways Brigham Young solved those challenges, and the pioneers worked to overcome them.