L.H. Pearson, Ph.D. Introduction After four years from the first meeting with Moroni on the Hill Cumorah, on 22 September 1827, Moroni gave Joseph Smith the sacred record written upon metal plates along with the Urim and Thummim and the breastplate. Joseph and Emma were married on January 18, 1827 and because of mounting persecution, […]
McKenna Denson has accused former MTC President, Joseph L. Bishop, of rape while she was serving as a sister missionary at the Provo Missionary Training Center in 1984. Is there a faithful perspective to the MTC President sex abuse scandal? What can we learn from the Joseph L. Bishop story?
Scott N. Bradley As you are aware, there is a highly organized, cleverly disguised, and powerfully promoted effort to call some sort of convention empowered “to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the […]
Lee H. Pearson, PhD Introduction The theory that all life in this world can be traced to a single-celled organism through a series of evolutionary steps is often referred to as “Darwinism” or “Darwinian Evolution”, named after the primary originator of this theory, Charles Darwin. “Organic evolution” or just “evolution” are more common terms. Before […]
Published with permission from the author, originally published by The Interpreter Foundation and MormonInterpreter.com A. Jane Birch Abstract: The 1921 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants included an additional comma, which was inserted after the word “used” in D&C 89:13: “And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of […]
James F. Stoddard III, with L. Hannah Stoddard Respect for Leaders All of my life I have been accused of blindly obeying my leaders. I was generally the one or among the small minority that left the movie, wouldn’t listen to the music or sounded out the unpopular teaching from an inspired leader or prophet. […]
by James F. Stoddard III There I was, 1996 and fresh out of BYU, teaching high school history, government and PE in Northern Arizona to students who couldn’t care less about the subject material. It was culture shock after years at BYU and teaching motivated new missionaries at the Missionary Training Center. How could I […]
Gary T. Wright Breaking Satan’s Great Chain of Darkness After his Zion was taken up into heaven, Enoch was given a vision of all the nations of the earth. That vision included a terrifying scene involving Lucifer— And he beheld Satan; and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of […]
Latter-day Courtship: A new (old) approach to dating L. Hannah Stoddard, edited by James F. Stoddard III and L. Sarah Stoddard We have been told that “we’ve never had a better generation of young people in the Church than we have today.” Why then are we losing more to immorality than we have ever lost? […]
L. Hannah Stoddard, edited by James F. Stoddard III Do We Still Believe in the Patriarchal Order? In our day the phrase “Patriarchal Order” provokes deep emotions, generally negative, to many members of the Church. To a growing number the Patriarchal Order is either something of the past that we have now finally moved beyond […]
The following is the foreword of the book, Revealed Educational Principles & The Public Schools. Scott N. Bradley (Dr. Scott N. Bradley is the Founder and Chairman of Constitution Commemoration Foundation, Inc., and twice candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2010.) Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are taught […]
James F. Stoddard III I believe that every feeling, every emotion that can be felt by man, can be expressed through music. Can it be that while we have been immersed in this medium, we have been seduced and distracted to forget its power for good or evil? My story with music begins when I […]
James F. Stoddard III and L. Hannah Stoddard Book of Mormon Passages for Biblical Christians In our age, the truth and authenticity of the Bible is greatly under attack. Academics and those considering themselves educated ridicule the Biblical account of the Creation, the life spans of the Patriarchs reaching nearly a millennia, the literal Fall […]
James F. Stoddard III If the Book of Mormon events occurred in North America, as Joseph Smith as well as other Presidents of the church have indicated, does this make other statements by the leadership of the Church inaccurate? It appears on initial investigation that the early Brethren contradict what some of the later Brethren, […]
James F. Stoddard III In response to what Mormons believe please permit me to add my thoughts. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes referred to as “Mormons” or “Latter-day Saints”) and my ancestry is through Joseph Smith’s grandfather, Asael Smith and cousins. I have had the priviledge […]
The following is a chapter from the book, THIS LAND: Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation Wayne N. May You’ve doubtless heard of evidences for Christ in Central and South America. Did you know there are far more evidences for the appearance of Christ in North America? [captionpix imgsrc=”/research/papers/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PAGE1_edit1.png” imglink=”/research/papers/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PAGE1_edit1.png” width=”300″ align=”left” captiontext=”Burrows Cave artifact, southern […]
A. LeGrand Richards Korihor and the Modern Antichrist . . . the basic doctrines of Korihor, the anti-christ of the Book of Mormon were also espoused by some of the most influential thinkers of modern times, particularly in the establishment of what we call the “social sciences.” Often these ideas are so craftily built into […]
The following is a chapter from the book, Revealed Educational Principles & The Public Schools by Jack Monnett. Chapter 3 – Frontier Education: Money, Teachers, and Books by: Jack Monnett School conditions varied from community to community; however, all shared common interest in a broad curriculum that agreed with LDS doctrine. The Gentile Problem During […]
