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MLM companies in Utah: Why there are so many, links to LDS Church

Dealing with racism in the Book of Mormon

(RNS) — The Book of Mormon could teach us some hard truths about racism if we're brave enough to listen, say co-authors Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming.

But why? | Dan Peterson

  Here is something from more than twelve years ago that you might find helpful as you begin your "Come, Follow Me" study of the Book of Mormon this

U Library's New Database Gives Insight Into Slavery in Utah

  The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah released a digital database of primary sources dealing with legislative debates on slavery in Utah’s territorial government in 1852 and 1856. Most of the documents in the database are being released to the public for the first time. “It’s really exciting,” head of Digital...

"We're going to look at everything" An 18,000 page monument to Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1805 — 218 years ago. The anniversary of his birth today may be lost in preparing for Christmas — something that professor Daniel Peterson, professor emeritus of Arabic and Islamic studies at BYU, suggested was by no means inappropriate, since Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, not Joseph, “and don’t want to suggest otherwise.” Joseph Smith by age 24 had published the Book of Mormon, and organized what Latter-day Saints consider to be a restoration of Christ’s ancient church.

'We're going to look at everything': An 18,000-page monument to Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1805 — 218 years ago. The anniversary of his birth today may be lost in preparing for Christmas — something that professor Daniel Peterson, professor emeritus of Arabic and Islamic studies at BYU, suggested was by no means inappropriate, since Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, not Joseph, “and don’t want to suggest otherwise.” Joseph Smith by age 24 had published the Book of Mormon, and organized what Latter-day Saints consider to be a restoration of Christ’s ancient church.

Joseph Smith's birthday today matters to Latter-day Saints everywhere

Latter-day Saints don’t have to be ‘nervous’ about their history, Richard Bushman and other scholars say on the anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth, and in the wake of over 18,000 pages of primary source documents about Joseph Smith being made freely available online.

What the LDS Church's new apostle appointment says about the faith's global focus

'Mormon Land': Apostle vacancy spurs questions about men who run the church — for life

Some thoughts on reading about Brigham Young

    On a message board where harshly negative reviews of the Interpreter Foundation's as-yet uncompleted film project Six Days in August have