By Lisle G. Brown All rights reserved. November 1995. This document may be freely distributed, as long as it includes this statement and no alterations are made to the text. In the Spring of 1836, Joseph Smith introduced the Church’s first temple ordinances (washings, anointings, washing of the feet, and the solemn assembly) in the […]
For those who might not be aware of the “Kinderhook Plates,” Wikipedia provides a sufficient overview: The Kinderhook Plates are a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with unusual engravings. Created as a hoax in 1843, they were surreptitiously buried and then dug up at a Native American mound near Kinderhook, Illinois, United
An address given by John W. Taylor, son of the prophet John Taylor, of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles SALT LAKE TABERNACLE, about 1888. Church Historian’s office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City How wonderful the old Patriarch Lehi must have felt at the time this great crisis
In addition to this article and video, our previous article “The Priesthood of Elijah, Church of the First Born, Kingdom of God and Other Terms Not Understood For the Past 100 years” is a fantastic overview of the doctrines restored and modern implications of that doctrine. This is taken from a Facebook post by a
Originally published in 2013, updates have been made to the original essay’s URL and content, and we felt it would be good to provide the updates. It has now been several years since a new page was put up at the Church’s official website that has caused quite a stir in a lot of
