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, […]
The Internet contains endless “scholarship”. In the world today there is no shortage of information. In all of this knowledge, the indispensable wisdom of the ages is often lost. Every individual providing articles views the world through a providential perspective. The Joseph Smith Foundation Papers seeks to find scholarship that ALSO includes faith.
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 […]
L. Hannah Stoddard, edited by James F. Stoddard III and L. Sarah Stoddard 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 through further light and […]
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 […]
A New Look at “Hot Drinks” and the Word of Wisdom I stumbled across something in my studies last week that increased my understanding of the Lord’s warning against “hot drinks” in the Word of Wisdom. I’m sure we’ve all heard the questions, “Well what about hot cocoa? What about Postum? What about decaffeinated coffee? What […]
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? Music Fireside Article My story with music […]
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 […]