Jan Shipps, Methodist Who Brought Credibility to Mormon Studies, Dies at 95
Jan Shipps showed up unannounced one day in 1971 at the office of a history professor in Indianapolis. When he asked how he could help her, she blurted out: 'You can give me a job. I'm tired of sex and I want to get back to history.'
Specifically, she wanted to get back to teaching history. And studying Mormons.
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