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Joseph Smith is in 'the pantheon of the prophets'
In considering the character of the Prophet Joseph Smith, it is good "to transfer what we know into how we act," Elder Marlin K. Jensen of the Seventy said May 12.Elder Jensen, recently released as Church Historian and Recorder, was the evening dinner speaker for the National Society of the Sons...
Joseph Smith's account of the Restoration is difficult to counter
As I see it, the single most persuasive secular argument for the authenticity of the founding events of the Restoration isn't actually a single argument or line of evidence at all. It's the fact that no counterexplanation yet proposed for those events accounts for all the relevant data nearly as...
Defending the Faith: If beginning is true, all else follows
Years ago, my colleague and friend Louis Midgley drew my attention to an anecdote related by the eminent Protestant church historian Martin Marty. It conveys an important lesson. Marie de Vichy-Chamrond (d. 1780), the Marquise du Deffand, was a famous 18th-century French hostess, as well as a...
Scholar Terryl Givens explains Mormon concept of 'Restoration'
Mormons may think they understand the Restoration, but in 19th century America, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was not just another restoriationist religion. Scholar Terryl Givens explained at the “Exploring Mormon Conceptions of the Apostasy” conference on Friday afternoon at...
New Documents Available on Joseph Smith Papers Website
Following the release of the second volume of the manuscript history of the Church online, the Joseph Smith Papers website has now added to its collection a dozen new documents relating to early Latter-day Saint history and Joseph Smith’s personal life. The new documents, dated from 1829 to...
The Restoration stands up to history
Decades ago, I attended a gathering where the late Stanley Kimball, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University and president of the Mormon History Association, spoke. His remarks have stuck in my mind ever since. (If anybody out there knows where a written version of the speech can be...
Lesson Helps: Befriending Converts (Teachings for Our Time Lesson 9)
Mormon Life says: Read the following excerpt from Gary J. Coleman's new book, The Journey of Conversion, for some additional insight into the Teachings for Our Time Lesson 9, Strengthening New Converts.
After joining the Church I had a transitional experience with a former pastor, one whom I had assisted for several years as an altar boy. I had received my patriarchal blessing eighty- nine...
Thoughts on Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39
Mormon Life says: Lesson 39 treats several important passages in the Book of Ephesians. Learn about the armor of God, Christ as our foundation, and more from authorities and scholars such as Joseph Smith, Harold B. Lee, and Bruce R. McConkie.
Bruce R. McConkie on the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times: The everlasting gospel is revealed or dispensed from heaven in various ages, periods, or dispensations. In each of these God...
