The history of Book of Mormon curriculum The Reynolds study showed that Latter-day Saints in the 1830s revered what they considered as the miraculous coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

As a Mormon missionary, Ryan McIlvain spent two years ringing strangers' doorbells, even as he experienced doubts about his own faith. He left the church in his mid-20s. McIlvain's debut novel ...

A full-scale replica of the tabernacle built by Moses and the Israelites, and described in the Old Testament, was set up by members of the Huntington Beach Mormon stake, or congregation, in the ...

While God never endorsed polygamy in the Old Testament, He did surprisingly allow it to take place at times. Nevertheless, polygamists were barred from leadership in the New Testament church (see ...

And thanks to aggressive SEO practices, typing in 'church', 'Old Testament', or even 'friend' into Google brings the website of the LDS church to the top of the list.

It’s a perfect storm. I would personally urge dropping the Old Testament (from the church’s four-year scripture cycle) and spending a whole year on the Pearl of Great Price. What?!

The Old Testament wafer is 4,234,673 characters while the New Testament is 975,320 characters. To create the tiny scripture discs, the students obtained the text files for each of the three books and ...

THE MORMON FAITH What are the core tenets of the Mormon religion? Read the comments of historians, scholars and Mormons on Joseph Smith and his revelations.

In the early 1830s, Smith extended this view of the role of men to include polygamy as it was practiced by Old Testament prophets like Abraham. Smith taught that a righteous man could help ...

The Old Testament is both of those things, but it also has great female characters, which the Book of Mormon didn’t have. And it seemed like the messages from Jesus were better in the New ...

There were, further, two magic stones, set in the twin breastplates Urim and Thummim of the Old Testament, that would enable Smith himself to translate the aforesaid book.