David Golding
@davidgolding.bsky.social
Historian, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. American religious history, Mormonism, missions and missionaries, transnational networks
In an MHA presentation about Fanny W. Custer, I described but didn’t explain my pronunciation of “Alger.” Here are my receipts.
(Let’s not use the name “Fanny Alger” to serve as a shibboleth of technical vs. amateur understanding of this woman and her life story.)
davidgolding.com/pronouncing-...
(Let’s not use the name “Fanny Alger” to serve as a shibboleth of technical vs. amateur understanding of this woman and her life story.)
davidgolding.com/pronouncing-...
Pronouncing “Fanny Alger”
Barring the discovery of a stronger direct source indicating an alternative, historians should not need a signal pronunciation to serve as a shibboleth for technical versus amateur understanding of he...
davidgolding.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In an MHA presentation about Fanny W. Custer, I described but didn’t explain my pronunciation of “Alger.” Here are my receipts.
(Let’s not use the name “Fanny Alger” to serve as a shibboleth of technical vs. amateur understanding of this woman and her life story.)
davidgolding.com/pronouncing-...
(Let’s not use the name “Fanny Alger” to serve as a shibboleth of technical vs. amateur understanding of this woman and her life story.)
davidgolding.com/pronouncing-...
Totally redesigned my personal website, top to bottom. First complete update in over a decade. (Fingers crossed I didn’t miss anything!)
davidgolding.com
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David Golding
Historian of Mormonism and Missions
davidgolding.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Totally redesigned my personal website, top to bottom. First complete update in over a decade. (Fingers crossed I didn’t miss anything!)
davidgolding.com
davidgolding.com
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Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
Hegseth watches Clear and Present Danger thinking Harrison Ford is the bad guy and Henry Czerny is the hero
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hegseth watches Clear and Present Danger thinking Harrison Ford is the bad guy and Henry Czerny is the hero
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It'd be great if they did this when it didn't personally involve their own families, but baby steps I guess.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It'd be great if they did this when it didn't personally involve their own families, but baby steps I guess.
I'm building an Obsidian plugin that provides a canvas for long form writing. The idea is to have a distraction-free writing interface geared toward writers, not "hacking" a way for Markdown to provide a typographically aesthetic environment.
github.com/davidgolding...
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GitHub - davidgolding/obsidian-colophon: Enhanced long form writing in Obsidian
Enhanced long form writing in Obsidian. Contribute to davidgolding/obsidian-colophon development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm building an Obsidian plugin that provides a canvas for long form writing. The idea is to have a distraction-free writing interface geared toward writers, not "hacking" a way for Markdown to provide a typographically aesthetic environment.
github.com/davidgolding...
github.com/davidgolding...
I haven’t used Google search in a solid year and haven’t missed it
"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I haven’t used Google search in a solid year and haven’t missed it
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Call me an effete liberal snob but I like that Mayor Wu can do this. I like having a mayor who has a developed inner life, who doesn’t give the impression of being hollowed of everything but ambition.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Call me an effete liberal snob but I like that Mayor Wu can do this. I like having a mayor who has a developed inner life, who doesn’t give the impression of being hollowed of everything but ambition.
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With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.
Absolutely. Dodgertown should put on the pressure: no ICE raids, no national guard in our cities, no White House visit
Dodgers, do not go to the White House.
Fans, demand this.
Enjoy the moment, but we have to come together as a community to make this World Series victory a symbol of Los Angeles joy and resistance, not collaboration and betrayal.
Fans, demand this.
Enjoy the moment, but we have to come together as a community to make this World Series victory a symbol of Los Angeles joy and resistance, not collaboration and betrayal.
a baseball player for the dodgers is standing in the dugout looking at the camera .
ALT: a baseball player for the dodgers is standing in the dugout looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Absolutely. Dodgertown should put on the pressure: no ICE raids, no national guard in our cities, no White House visit
What an epic World Series. Ended basically in the early innings of game 9. Such great teams facing off, heroes all the way around. The trophy comes back to LA!
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
What an epic World Series. Ended basically in the early innings of game 9. Such great teams facing off, heroes all the way around. The trophy comes back to LA!
LET FREEMAN RING
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
LET FREEMAN RING
My own college football ranking system:
davidgolding.com/rankings
It's based on measuring teams' record of performance, capability, and basically sorting out the field on a philosophy of present superiority, not head-to-head prediction or blue-blood bias.
davidgolding.com/rankings
It's based on measuring teams' record of performance, capability, and basically sorting out the field on a philosophy of present superiority, not head-to-head prediction or blue-blood bias.
College Football Rankings - Logical Strength Rating
davidgolding.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My own college football ranking system:
davidgolding.com/rankings
It's based on measuring teams' record of performance, capability, and basically sorting out the field on a philosophy of present superiority, not head-to-head prediction or blue-blood bias.
davidgolding.com/rankings
It's based on measuring teams' record of performance, capability, and basically sorting out the field on a philosophy of present superiority, not head-to-head prediction or blue-blood bias.
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Why do all the cries for making the United States “great” again come from people who also advocate and support an undemocratic president and seem very much okay with the idea of an authoritarian “king?”
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Why do all the cries for making the United States “great” again come from people who also advocate and support an undemocratic president and seem very much okay with the idea of an authoritarian “king?”
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
A phenomenon exacerbated by social media algorithms and engagement-bait media. Public perception gets warped by the blatant suppression of newsworthiness
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
October 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A phenomenon exacerbated by social media algorithms and engagement-bait media. Public perception gets warped by the blatant suppression of newsworthiness
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America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!
Deleted my Academia.edu account. Sticking with ORCID and Zenodo for connecting with researchers.
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ORCID
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October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Deleted my Academia.edu account. Sticking with ORCID and Zenodo for connecting with researchers.
orcid.org/0009-0006-85...
orcid.org/0009-0006-85...
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Shibboleth
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Shibboleth
I made a thing!
Kennings - An Old English Word Game
kennings.davidgolding.com
Help me test it, send me your feedback
Kennings - An Old English Word Game
kennings.davidgolding.com
Help me test it, send me your feedback
Kennings - An Old English Word Game
kennings.davidgolding.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I made a thing!
Kennings - An Old English Word Game
kennings.davidgolding.com
Help me test it, send me your feedback
Kennings - An Old English Word Game
kennings.davidgolding.com
Help me test it, send me your feedback
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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Trump has sought emergency intervention by the SCOTUS 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. He's using SCOTUS as an extralegal battering ram against the federal courts. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System
The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.
www.wsj.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump has sought emergency intervention by the SCOTUS 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. He's using SCOTUS as an extralegal battering ram against the federal courts. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
October 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
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“With its focus on global connections and local issues, the book offers a vital starting point for future studies on the impact of Christian missions in global history.”
A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social
A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social
Christian Laboratory: Mormon and Protestant Missions in Ideological and Geographical Peripheries
The book Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, provides a significant contribution to th...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“With its focus on global connections and local issues, the book offers a vital starting point for future studies on the impact of Christian missions in global history.”
A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social
A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social