by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 4, 2013
Royal Skousen, a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, has published the results of a twenty-five year study on original and printer’s manuscript text of the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith was the first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 19, 2013
There are five primary accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision. Joseph Smith was the first prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members are sometimes referred to as Mormons. Because there are differences in the accounts, some...
by Keith L. Brown | Oct 9, 2012
The greatness of Joseph Smith was his greatness as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph Smith, following in the footsteps of his Savior, Jesus Christ, learned the meaning of persecution. Joseph experienced the blind, irrational behavior of some ignorant human...
by Keith L. Brown | Oct 9, 2012
One would expect, and almost rightly so, that with the much adversity Joseph Smith faced, he would almost always be sober, serious, and perhaps overly pious. This might be expected, but it was not the case. Joseph did not fit the stereotype, the usual image of a...
