[…] I bethought myself day after day. The appointed time arrived, the doors were opened for me. In deed I set my eyes on the ancient stele of Nebuchadnezzar . . . on which was […]
Listen to an interview about this piece here. The new young Bishop Fredn ing had not asked Vernie to prepare and narrate the Christmas program. For the first time in twenty-seven years, the bishop […]
The speed with which photogr aphs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to […]
[…] how the Book of Mormon originated. Joseph declined, saying: “It was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.” His pat answer—which he repeated […]
Brigham Young and Orson Pratt are both regarded as valiant leaders dur ing the first generation of the restored Church. Both worked mightily in the missionary field and showed themselves stalwart defenders of the […]
Sterling M. McMurrin h as been a leading philosopher and educator for many years. Among his publications pertaining to the philosophy of religion are Religion, Reason, and Truth (1982) and The Theological Foundations of […]
[…] papers at the 1986 Sunstone Symposium, the moment had already acquired an appropriately symptomatic quality by be ing given two titles: Levi’s too-brave or even brazen “In Defense of a Mormon Pornography” (which he […]
[…] his chief illustration, he seeks to understand why religious extremism flourishes in a skeptical, postmodern society. Us ing the 1984 Utah murders of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her daughter, Erica, and the trials of […]
Ren aissance scholar Ada Palmer estimates we know 1 percent of what happened five hundred years ago and that two-thirds of what we know is wrong. I have no reason to doubt her expertise—and […]
“ And upon these,” Nephi writes, differentiating his smaller set of plates from the original historically focused record begun over thirty years prior, “I write the things of my soul” (2 Ne. 4:15). As […]