Fact-Checking Misquoted Statements on Blindly Following the Prophet

James F. Stoddard IIIL. Hannah Stoddard 1. What about President Ezra Taft Benson’s 14 Fundamentals Devotional Talk? Should we follow the President of the Church without question? On February 26, 1980, at the Brigham Young University Marriott Center, President Ezra Taft Benson, who was then serving as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, […]

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Changing Lives

Rebuilding Shaken Testimonies I’m a 48 year old Gen X church leader and I wanted to let you know how grateful I am for the work you, your father, and the foundation have done. I’ll be honest that with some of the crazy revisionist history of the Prophet Joseph, I often shied away from bearing testimony […]

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Rough Stone Rolling Debunked

The Joseph Smith Foundation will be releasing a thorough review and debunking of Rough Stone Rolling in the near future. In the meantime, here are resources that may be helpful: Rough Stone Rolling is one of the most influential factors leading members into a personal faith crisis. Richard Bushman is now the chief Latter-day Saint evangelist in […]

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May 2021, Part 2: Debunking Rough Stone Rolling’s Treasure Digging Sources with REAL Data | Vidcast May 2021, Part 1: Debunking Rough Stone Rolling’s Treasure Digging Sources with REAL Data | Vidcast August 2018, Part 2: Growing Up with the Joseph Smith Foundation, Gaining a Mission & Testimony (Hannah Stoddard) August 2018, “Two of Joseph […]

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Educational Resources!

Ages The “History of the Age of the Earth: With Emphasis on the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the House of Israel” chart includes extensively documented pedigrees, timelines with key figures and nobility through the dark ages and up through the founding of our nation and the Restoration of the Gospel. Even significant astronomical events are noted. […]

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Ages

History of the Age of the Earth: With Emphasis on the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the House of Israel This new timeline brings together historical and sacred revelations with all the dates for the House of Israel, including documented life spans. In addition to the Biblical record, this timeline includes key figures and nobility through the […]

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Stoddard, L. Hannah

Joseph Smith Foundation director, author, film producer, speaker   L. Hannah Stoddard is the lead author of Faith Crisis, Volume 1: We Were NOT Betrayed!, Seer Stone v. Urim & Thummim: Book of Mormon Translation on Trial, Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Behind Closed Doors, Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives: Helen Mar Kimball, and A Christ-Centered Home. […]

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