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(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.
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.
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.