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Podcast: The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon
Brant Gardner is interviewed on KTKK Radio and on KSL Radio regarding his new book, The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon (available for purchase at the FAIR Bookstore) He talks about seer stones, the Spaulding manuscript, stylometrics, various theories on Book of Mormon translation...
FAIR Study Aids for the Book of Mormon
With the upcoming year of Book of Mormon study in Gospel Doctrine classes, FAIR has decided to put together a new study resource. We are calling it “FAIR Study Aids,” and it can be accessed on our wiki here. Similar efforts have been made in the past, and the fruits of those labors have also been...
Best of FAIR 9: The Lives of Mormon Women
Mormon Life says: Great quote: “Women should realize that the Church is a great enabler, not a hindrance."
Claudia Bushman asks, is the self sacrifice motif for women in the Church so strong that no interest and care should be taken about their own lives? She observes that “too many women in the church...
Northwest College and LDS student recruitment
Recently there has been some commotion about a recruiting letter to LDS at Northwest College in Powell Wyoming. You can read about it in the Billings Gazette here and here. Working at a college myself, I recognize that some of the issue has nothing to do with Mormons but was a way to express...
Urban legends among the Mormons: No one is immune
Urban legends have always existed. The Internet has multiplied and accelerated them, but human beings have always been susceptible to falling for the oft-told tale that’s too fantastic not to believe. Among the Saints we have our regulars: The Three Nephites picked up as hitch-hikers. Comedian...
Weather in relation to Book of Mormon geography
Snow is only mentioned once in The Book of Mormon, and that is only when the Lehites were still in the Old World 1. This is very indicative of where The Book of Mormon took place. If they lived in an area that was cold, such as the area around the Great Lakes, surely the bitter winters known in...
Urban legends among the Mormons: No one is immune
Mormon Life says: Specifically addresses the legend that Cain is still alive today.
Urban legends have always existed. The Internet has multiplied and accelerated them, but human beings have always been susceptible to falling for the oft-told tale that’s too fantastic not to...
Northwest College and LDS student recruitment
Mormon Life says: We featured this news when it came out but it is interesting to read FAIR's letters to the college.
Recently there has been some commotion about a recruiting letter to LDS at Northwest College in Powell Wyoming. ...Working at a college myself, I recognize that some of the issue has nothing to do...
Disrespecting Holocaust Victims?
Jewish groups are upset at the thought of the Church baptising Holocaust victims. It seems that they are being egged on by one Helen Radkey. The Church had agreed that members are to do the work only for those in their line–or with the permission of their next-of-kin. Despite assertions that the...
Liberals and Conservatives
A recent article of Time magazine, “Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?” has brought to the surface a tension between liberal and conservative Latter-day Saints. The reason: Brother Beck is not only militantly conservative, he is also blatantly LDS. Liberal Latter-day Saints are up in arms...
Gospel Doctrine apologetics: D&C lesson 32
This week: Lesson 32, “To Seal the Testimony” (D&C 135). Subjects covered: The martyrdom of Joseph Smith. Potential issues: * Joseph Smith as a martyr (related: Martyrdom in Christian history). * Joseph fired a gun in Carthage Jail (related: The Church is hiding this fact). * The...
Gospel Doctrine apologetics: D&C lesson 31
This week: Lesson 31, “Sealed…for Time and for All Eternity” (D&C 131:1–4; 132:4–33). Subjects covered: Eternal marriage; plural marriage. Potential issues: * Eternal marriage and Biblical statements on marriage. * Jews and early Christians on marriage after death. * Apostles married in...
Gospel Doctrine apologetics: D&C lesson 27
In what will hopefully become a recurring feature on the FAIR blog, we present a list of issues that could come up as you teach or participate in your ward’s Gospel Doctrine class. Each issue is linked to an examination and response by FAIR. This week: Lesson 27, “They Must Needs Be Chastened and...
Forays amongst the disaffected
How we react when someone comes to us with concerns often will have as much or more of an influence on our ability to help them than the information we provide.
