The Joseph Smith Foundation is pleased to share with you some of the latest additions to our collection of resources:

Inspira Maps and Timeline 2.0 Release

The Inspira Project has released Version 2 of both the Maps and Timeline. This new release adds hundreds of locations and events from history, all from a Providential perspective.

The Inspira Maps takes locations world-wide and connects them with easily accessible articles, video, audio and more--all on one map. A perfect tool for traveling and vacations. Inspiring locations can now be instantly discovered and enlightening background learned without hours of personal research. You will discover historical locations in your own backyard, including monuments, museums, and markers. Do you know of locations that are missing? Let us know!

The Inspira Maps and Timeline are integrated with articles in the Inspira Wiki to make history come to life, becoming faith-filled and memorable. Here is a sampling of several "fascinating but little known" events waiting for you to discover:

• Ohio Decalogue Stone
• Unknown man convinces signers of the Declaration of Independence to step forth with courage and sign the document, in spite of the chilling costs
• Los Lunas Decalogue discovered on the Hidden Mountain in Los Lunas, New Mexico
• Hebrew artifacts throughout North America as found in the Hopewell culture
• Inca Stones: hundreds of ancient depictions of dinosaurs interacting with man and advanced technology found in Peru
• Evidence of Lamanites in the Rocky Mountains
• 1746 Miracle at the Old South Church
• What are the most sacred locations on earth? Learn what the revelations have to say and view them on the map.
• Joseph Smith identifies the location of the Book of Mormon cities of Zarahemla and Manti
• Louis Agassiz, one of the eminent men of Wilford Woodruff, was a primary opponent of Darwinian Evolution
• Michael Faraday , the man who is known today as the Father of Electronics, came back to the St. George Temple in the August 1877 vision

ZionTube

Do you enjoy watching movies as a family? Do you often wonder where good movies can be found? Movies your family can enjoy without fast-forwarding? Movies that will be a useful investment of an hour of precious time?

ZionTube is a collection of the best known free videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources, organized and searchable from one site. With over 300 different documentaries, motion pictures, lectures, interviews, animations and more, this site provides LDS families with media for education and leisure in the home. While all ZionTube videos can be considered good and among the best that the Internet has to offer, videos have been further categorized by Good, Better and Best. If you would like you can search for the very best of the very best. Additionally your family can enjoy video selections on science, history, government, education, the Reformation and more! Video is an incredible way to learn.

Current Top 10 Movies on ZionTube:

1. Courageous (2011)
2. Torchlighters: The Richard Wurmbrand Story
3. Torchlighters: The Amy Carmichael Story
4. Beit Lehi, Israel
5. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
6. Torchlighters: The Gladys Aylward Story
7. Agenda: Grinding American Down (2010)
8. Amazing Grace (2006)
9. Torchlighters: The Jim Elliot Story
10. Come What May (2009)

Book of Mormon Passages for Biblical Christians
from James F. Stoddard III

"Book of Mormon Passages for Biblical Christians” is a concise and comparative parallel study of teachings from the Bible side-by-side with companion principles as found in the Book of Mormon. Through this non-threatening approach, those who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be introduced to the Book of Mormon as a second witness of Jesus Christ with the Bible. This enlightening research assists in clarifying the fact that the teachings of the LDS faith are founded in and concur with those of the Bible. Comparisons include

1. Chastity and repentance
2. Remembering the days of old
3. Fathers instructing sons
4. True leadership
5. True wisdom
6. Caring for the widow and fatherless
7. Being born again
8. Freedom
9. Creation
10. Revelation
11. Government
12. Faith
13. and more!

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