At times, members will get upset when they discover that a prophet of God lied. They will either reject the restored gospel as a whole or enter a level of cognitive dissonance, which leads to a denial of the facts. They will proclaim something like, “He wasn’t involved in hypocrisy, lying, or acting like a […]
In the spirit of the Church’s series, “Revelations In Context“, we thought our dear readers would benefit from an in-depth contextual look at a revelation given to the prophet John Taylor on the 13th of October 1882. For the uninitiated, the revelation from the Lord to John Taylor on 13 October 1882 is included below:
There is a small, but vocal idea that the Lord rejected His Church over a semantic when the name of the Church went from the “Church of Christ” to “Church of the Latter-day Saints”. Some (not to receive free advertising here) even go so far as to say Joseph Smith was wrong for being “influenced”
No, Changing the Name of the Church Did NOT Signal The Lord’s Rejection of It Read More »
For years a handful of polygamy deniers have published books and periodicals claiming that Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy and that it was a later invention of Brigham Young. Sunstone’s Mormon History podcast hosts Bryan and Lindsay get into the literature, dive into the details and throw out the fraudulent conspiracies (as opposed to conspiracy
Dr. Scott Bradley recently gave a presentation on who did and who did NOT visit Wilford Woodruff in the St. George temple, contrary to popular myth that we wanted to share with you.
NO, Lincoln Did NOT Visit Woodruff in the St George Temple Read More »
