Church history

The Anomaly: Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning and its Latter-day Saints

by Robert Swanson | Aug 2, 2024 | 3 comments

An Exceptional Example of the Richness of Church History

by Susan Easton Black | Apr 19, 2024 | 0 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Expositor-Based Exposition

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 8, 2023 | 0 comments

Turning Type into Pi: The Destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor in Historical Context

by Craig L. Foster | Sep 8, 2023 | 10 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Joseph Smith at the Veil

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 1, 2023 | 0 comments

Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings

by George L. Mitton | Sep 1, 2023 | 4 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 32: To Be a Witness

by Administration | Nov 26, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 31: John Whitmer and the Plates

by Administration | Nov 19, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 30: No Matter the Consequence

by Administration | Nov 12, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 29: Women Witnesses—Why and Why Not?

by Administration | Nov 5, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 28: Ancient Metal Plates?

by Administration | Oct 29, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 27: The Hiram Page Revelations

by Administration | Oct 22, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 26: James Strang’s Witnesses

by Administration | Oct 15, 2022 | 0 comments

A Rejoinder to Jonathan Neville’s “Response to Recent Reviews”

by Spencer Kraus | Oct 14, 2022 | 5 comments

A Man That Can Translate and Infinite Goodness: A Response to Recent Reviews

by Jonathan E. Neville | Oct 14, 2022 | 15 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 25: Did Lucy Harris Support the Book of Mormon?

by Administration | Oct 8, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 24: What was Joseph’s Witness?

by Administration | Oct 1, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 23: Why did Martin Harris Join So Many Churches?

by Administration | Sep 24, 2022 | 0 comments

The Continuing Saga of Saints

by Craig L. Foster | Sep 23, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 22: What Else did the Witnesses See?

by Administration | Sep 17, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 21: Who Felt or Saw the Plates?

by Administration | Sep 10, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 20: Who Wrote the Testimony of the Witnesses?

by Administration | Sep 3, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 19: Why the Witnesses Project?

by Administration | Aug 27, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 18: Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?

by Administration | Aug 20, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 17: What is your Witness?

by Administration | Aug 13, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 16: Why Witnesses?

by Administration | Aug 6, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 15: Are Prophets Perfect?

by Administration | Jul 30, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 14: Plural Marriage – Part 2

by Administration | Jul 23, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 13: Plural Marriage – Part 1

by Administration | Jul 16, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 12: Who were the Danites?

by Administration | Jul 9, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 11: What were the Voree Plates?

by Administration | Jul 2, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 10: What were the Kinderhook Plates?

by Administration | Jun 25, 2022 | 5 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 9: Is the Spaulding Argument Valid?

by Administration | Jun 18, 2022 | 3 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 8: What was the Cost of Being a Witness?

by Administration | Jun 11, 2022 | 2 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 7: Did the Witnesses Ever Deny their Testimonies?

by Administration | Jun 4, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 6: Sidney Rigdon and the Witnesses

by Administration | May 28, 2022 | 0 comments

DVD Now Available of Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon

by Administration | May 25, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 5: Blessings of Kirtland

by Administration | May 21, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 4: Joseph Smith: Man, Prophet—or Both?

by Administration | May 14, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 3: David Whitmer, Witness

by Administration | May 7, 2022 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 2: Martin Harris, Witness

by Administration | Apr 30, 2022 | 1 comment

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 1: Oliver Cowdery, Witness

by Administration | Apr 23, 2022 | 0 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Ich Bin Ein Malachi

by Kyler Rasmussen | Apr 1, 2022 | 0 comments

“The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Christology of D&C 93:8 and Its Implications for Latter-day Saint Missionary Work and Temple Worship

by Matthew L. Bowen | Apr 1, 2022 | 3 comments

Vast Prairies and Trackless Wilds of Snow: A Good Test of Sincerity

by Daniel C. Peterson | Apr 23, 2021 | 0 comments

Learning of Joseph Smith Anew

by LDS Perspectives | Apr 6, 2021 | 1 comment

The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri

by R. Jean Addams | Apr 5, 2021 | 3 comments

Interpreter Radio Show — March 14, 2021

by Administration | Mar 22, 2021 | 1 comment

Interpreter Radio Show — March 7, 2021

by Administration | Mar 20, 2021 | 0 comments

Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ

by Gregory L. Smith | Mar 5, 2021 | 6 comments

Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Abraham

by John Gee | Jan 29, 2021 | 6 comments

“What Is the Restoration?” with Patrick Q. Mason

by LDS Perspectives | Jan 27, 2021 | 4 comments

Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient and Modern Times

by Richard E. Turley Jr. and Stephen O. Smoot | Jan 25, 2021 | 2 comments

The Kinderhook Plates with Mark Ashurst-McGee

by LDS Perspectives | Dec 23, 2020 | 4 comments

A Priesthood Restoration Narrative for Latter-day Saints Believers

by Brian C. Hales | Nov 13, 2020 | 0 comments

“We May Not Understand Our Words”: The Book of Abraham and the Concept of Translation in The Pearl of Greatest Price

by John S. Thompson | Nov 13, 2020 | 17 comments

It Came from Beyond

by Daniel C. Peterson | Nov 6, 2020 | 6 comments

Latter-day Saint Beliefs on the Apocalypse with Christopher J. Blythe

by LDS Perspectives | Oct 14, 2020 | 0 comments

A Uni-Dimensional Picture of a Multi-Faceted Nauvoo Community

by Richard E. Bennett | Oct 2, 2020 | 1 comment

The Expanse of Joseph Smith’s Translation Vision

by Brant A. Gardner | Sep 18, 2020 | 1 comment

Sensationalism: A One-sided Perspective

by Susan Easton Black | Jul 10, 2020 | 24 comments

Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extralegal Justice in Historical Context

by Craig L. Foster | May 1, 2020 | 0 comments

“Somebody Wrote It:” The Book of Mormon’s Missionary Message to a 21st-Century World

by Jim Bennett | Jan 17, 2020 | 8 comments

What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?

by Stan Spencer | Sep 6, 2019 | 13 comments

A Church History Moment with J. B. Haws

by LDS Perspectives | Sep 6, 2019 | 1 comment

The Global Church and Lived Religion with Melissa Inouye

by LDS Perspectives | Aug 14, 2019 | 0 comments

A Precious Resource with Some Gaps

by Jeff Lindsay | Jul 19, 2019 | 42 comments

The Power of Godliness with Jonathan Stapley

by LDS Perspectives | Jul 10, 2019 | 11 comments

The Latter-day Saints and Zion with Matthew C. Godfrey

by LDS Perspectives | Jun 12, 2019 | 2 comments

DNA Helps Solve a Historical Question about Joseph Smith

by Allen Wyatt | Jun 11, 2019

“Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way”: What Spencer W. Kimball Told Elaine Cannon

by Duane Boyce | Jun 7, 2019 | 28 comments

A Review of the Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon (Part 3E)

by Stephen O. Smoot | Jun 5, 2019 | 1 comment

D&C 21, George Albert Smith, and Hugh B. Brown: A Fresh Look at Three Incidents in Church History

by Duane Boyce | May 24, 2019 | 20 comments

I Don’t Have a Testimony of the History of the Church

by Davis Bitton | Mar 22, 2019 | 6 comments

An Approach to History

by Allen Wyatt | Mar 22, 2019 | 6 comments

Campbellites and Mormonites: Competing Restoration Movements

by RoseAnn Benson | Mar 1, 2019 | 4 comments

Assessing the Criticisms of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages

by Craig L. Foster | Feb 22, 2019 | 11 comments

Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon

by Brian C. Hales | Feb 15, 2019 | 29 comments

The Book of Abraham with Robin Scott Jensen

by LDS Perspectives | Nov 7, 2018 | 4 comments

Interpreter Radio Show — October 28, 2018

by Administration | Oct 31, 2018 | 0 comments

Interpreter Radio Show — September 2, 2018

by Administration | Sep 11, 2018 | 0 comments

The Dawning of a Brighter Day

by Stephen O. Smoot | Sep 4, 2018 | 1 comment

Missourian Efforts to Extradite Joseph Smith and the Ethics of Governor Thomas Reynolds of Missouri

by A. Keith Thompson | Aug 17, 2018 | 2 comments

The Habeas Corpus Protection of Joseph Smith from Missouri Arrest Requisitions

by A. Keith Thompson | Aug 10, 2018 | 3 comments

W. W. Phelps and Early Mormonism with Bruce Van Orden — Part 2

by LDS Perspectives | Aug 8, 2018 | 0 comments

W. W. Phelps and Early Mormonism with Bruce Van Orden — Part 1

by LDS Perspectives | Aug 8, 2018 | 0 comments

The Strange Saga of a False Prophet:
Charles W. Stayner, Orson F. Whitney, and George Q. Cannon

by Dennis B. Horne | Jul 23, 2018 | 3 comments

19th Century Restorationists – RoseAnn Benson

by LDS Perspectives | Jun 27, 2018 | 1 comment

Old Major with Alexander L. Baugh

by LDS Perspectives | Jun 27, 2018 | 0 comments

Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s Witness of the 1978 Revelation on the Priesthood

by Dennis B. Horne | May 31, 2018 | 5 comments

A Global History of Black Mormons with Russell Stevenson

by LDS Perspectives | May 30, 2018 | 1 comment

The LDS Church and the Sugar Industry with Matthew C. Godfrey

by LDS Perspectives | May 23, 2018 | 0 comments

A Closer Look at the Foundational Texts of Mormonism with Sharalyn D. Howcroft

by LDS Perspectives | May 9, 2018 | 0 comments

Glimpses of Nauvoo with Christopher Blythe

by LDS Perspectives | Apr 11, 2018 | 0 comments

Interpreter Radio Show — March 25, 2018

by Administration | Mar 29, 2018 | 0 comments

Changing Critics’ Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes

by Brian C. Hales | Jan 26, 2018 | 16 comments

KnoWhy OTL05A — Why Was Joseph Smith Initially Prohibited from Publishing His Bible Translation?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jan 22, 2018 | 1 comment

The Missouri War and Liberty Jail Letters with David W. Grua

by LDS Perspectives | Jan 3, 2018 | 0 comments

The Book of Mormon Witnesses and Their Challenge to Secularism

by Daniel C. Peterson | Dec 29, 2017 | 36 comments

An Important Year in History

by Craig L. Foster | Dec 1, 2017 | 0 comments

The Council of Fifty’s Quest for Religious Liberty with W. Paul Reeve

by LDS Perspectives | Nov 22, 2017 | 0 comments

The Kirtland Safety Society with Elizabeth Kuehn

by LDS Perspectives | Nov 15, 2017 | 1 comment

Wilford Woodruff’s Witness of the Unfolding of Temple Doctrine with Jennifer Ann Mackley

by LDS Perspectives | Oct 4, 2017 | 3 comments

Book Review: The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History

by Stephen O. Smoot | Sep 3, 2017 | 2 comments

On Doctrine and Covenants Language and the 1833 Plot of Zion

by Stanford Carmack | Sep 1, 2017 | 10 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: “The Lectures on Faith,” with Noel Reynolds

by LDS Perspectives | Jul 19, 2017 | 1 comment

LDS Perspectives Podcast: Stephen O. Smoot, “The Divine Council.”

by LDS Perspectives | Jun 28, 2017 | 0 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: “Tough Questions about Mormon Polygamy,” with Brian and Laura Hales

by LDS Perspectives | May 24, 2017 | 3 comments

Joseph Smith: Monogamist or Polygamist?

by Brian C. Hales | May 12, 2017 | 86 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: Tithing and the Law of Consecration, with Steven C. Harper

by LDS Perspectives | Apr 12, 2017 | 0 comments

Scriptures with Pictures: Methodology, Unexamined Assumptions, and the Study of the Book of Abraham

by Mark J. Johnson | Apr 7, 2017 | 17 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcasts: The Three Witnesses, with Larry Morris

by LDS Perspectives | Mar 22, 2017 | 0 comments

Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer

by Stan Spencer | Mar 10, 2017 | 37 comments

Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 9, "The Only True and Living Church"

by Administration | Feb 19, 2017 | 0 comments

Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 9 (2013)

by Administration | Feb 19, 2017 | 5 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: In Brigham Young’s Words

by LDS Perspectives | Feb 15, 2017 | 0 comments

Recording New D&C Scripture Roundtables

by Administration | Feb 5, 2017 | 3 comments

The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game: More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics

by Jeff Lindsay | Jan 13, 2017 | 7 comments

Scary Ghost Stories in the Light of Day

by Allen Wyatt | Jan 6, 2017 | 36 comments

Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1, Introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History

by Administration | Dec 29, 2016 | 5 comments

Opportunity Lost

by Brian C. Hales | Dec 16, 2016 | 55 comments

The Council of Fifty and Its Minutes: A Review

by Stephen O. Smoot | Dec 2, 2016 | 2 comments

The Council of Fifty and Its Minutes: A Review

by A. Keith Thompson | Dec 2, 2016 | 0 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: Joseph’s Seer Stones with Michael Hubbard MacKay

by LDS Perspectives | Nov 20, 2016 | 3 comments

“There’s the Boy I Can Trust”: Dennison Lott Harris’ First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smith’s “Last Charge” to the Twelve Apostles

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jul 15, 2016 | 3 comments

Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jun 3, 2016 | 9 comments

A Pilgrim’s Faith

by Jared Riddick | May 13, 2016 | 1 comment

Dating Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Sealings

by Brian C. Hales | May 13, 2016 | 0 comments

The Position of the Church on the Adam-God Theory

by Dennis B. Horne | May 11, 2016 | 1 comment

Elder Bruce R. McConkie and the Adam-God theory (part 3)

by Dennis B. Horne | May 10, 2016 | 26 comments

Elder Bruce R. McConkie and the Adam-God theory (part 2)

by Dennis B. Horne | May 9, 2016 | 4 comments

Elder Bruce R. McConkie and the Adam-God Theory (part 1)

by Dennis B. Horne | May 8, 2016 | 23 comments

Elder Mark E. Petersen and the Adam-God Theory

by Dennis B. Horne | May 7, 2016 | 0 comments

Elder Harold B. Lee, Rodney Turner, and the Adam-God Theory

by Dennis B. Horne | May 6, 2016 | 30 comments

Early Sermons of Church leaders found in the Journal of Discourses and other early publications

by Dennis B. Horne | May 5, 2016 | 7 comments

Additional Witnesses of the Coming Forth and Content of the Book of Mormon

by Dennis B. Horne | Apr 20, 2016 | 5 comments

Telling the Story of the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon

by Stephen O. Smoot | Mar 11, 2016 | 8 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Façade or Reality?

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 3, 2015 | 51 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence

by Brian C. Hales | Jun 26, 2015 | 36 comments

What You Will Read About in the New Institute Manual on Early Church History

by Stephen O. Smoot | Jun 23, 2015 | 15 comments

Mormon Women’s History Initiative Symposium, 9 August 2014

by Administration | Jul 19, 2014 | 0 comments

A Perspective on the Church and the Gospel

by John L. Sorenson | Jun 6, 2014 | 4 comments

Separated but not Divorced: The LDS Church’s Uncomfortable Relationship with its Polygamous Past

by Craig L. Foster | May 2, 2014 | 48 comments

The Inevitability of Epistemology in Historiography: Theory, History, and Zombie Mormon History

by Alan Goff | Mar 28, 2014 | 14 comments

The Cowdery Conundrum: Oliver’s Aborted Attempt to Describe Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 1834 and 1835

by Roger Nicholson | Dec 6, 2013 | 7 comments

“The Desert Shall Rejoice, and Blossom as the Rose”

by Taylor Halverson | Nov 29, 2013 | 1 comment

Martin Harris Photograph Restored in Full Color – Bryce M. Haymond

by Bryce M. Haymond | Nov 27, 2013 | 4 comments

Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part Two of Two)

by Gregory L. Smith | Oct 25, 2013 | 92 comments

Passing Up The Heavenly Gift (Part One of Two)

by Gregory L. Smith | Oct 18, 2013 | 31 comments

“To Seal the Testimony” D&C 135

by Taylor Halverson | Aug 29, 2013 | 4 comments

Misunderstanding Mormonism in The Mormonizing of America

by Craig L. Foster | Aug 16, 2013 | 21 comments

The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book: A Twenty-first Century Believer’s View of the Book of Mormon Translation

by Roger Nicholson | Jun 7, 2013 | 36 comments

David Whitmer Photograph Retouched and Colorized

by Bryce M. Haymond | Mar 16, 2013 | 12 comments

Trusting Joseph

by Neal Rappleye | Mar 15, 2013 | 2 comments

Reminder: The Church History Symposium is this week!

by Administration | Mar 3, 2013 | 0 comments

Oliver Cowdery Daguerreotype Restored in Full Color

by Bryce M. Haymond | Feb 17, 2013 | 9 comments

Save March 7-8, 2013!

by Administration | Feb 16, 2013 | 0 comments

Restoration of the Priesthood

by William J. Hamblin | Feb 7, 2013 | 0 comments

Mark Dates for the BYU Church History Symposium

by Administration | Jan 13, 2013 | 0 comments

Papers of Joseph Smith, "Revelations" on Sale

by William J. Hamblin | Oct 1, 2012 | 0 comments

Mormonism and Wikipedia: The Church History That “Anyone Can Edit”

by Roger Nicholson | Sep 14, 2012 | 4 comments