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How Joseph’s Translating the Bible Helped Shape the Restoration

Introduction This introductory article and the one that follows examine the relationship between the New Translation of the Holy Bible, now known as The Joseph Smith Translation1 ...

To See God Face to Face — Becoming Brigham, Episode 28

How did the early apostles’ expectation that they must personally see the Savior shape their understanding of what it means to be a “special witness”? Why did the failure of the Ki...

The Mormon Boy Who Became Butch Cassidy

Long before anyone called him Butch Cassidy, before the bank robberies and blown safes, before the Pinkertons put his face on wanted posters and pursued him across continents, he w...

Pete Hegseth’s spiritual adviser longs for a day when Latter-day Saints can’t hold office or possibly even vote

  If Pete Hegseth was attempting a theological purge when the Pentagon recently rolled out a controversial “Christian list” that left out Latter-day Saints, the defense secretary’s...

Currents: When I Was Mocked for My Faith; Another Daniel Who Can’t Pray at Home (in the U.S); Utah Among Worst States?

One What I Did When I Was Mocked for My Faith in Jesus Christ Elder Clark G. Gilbert told a single adult conference in the Europe North Area about a time in his youth when he was...

J. Gresham Machen: Where he died Is important

Michael Horton shares this insight into the life of J. Gresham Machen – “Already frail in health, J. Gresham Machen kept his appointment to preach in North Dakota. For someone rear...

ATSS: Matthew Lucio, “Christian Conspiracies & Frauds”

15 July 2026  | Why did intelligent Christians believe spectacular frauds? John Todd, Mike Warnke, and Alberto Rivera exploited fear, prophecy, and secret knowledge—and became extr...

The Jesus of Latter-day Saints

Ask your Mormon neighbors if they believe in Jesus, and they’ll respond with an enthusiastic yes – and add that they deeply love Jesus. Take them at their word; they’re telling the...

Martyr of Love: Explorations of Christian Eloquence

Fr. Joshua Whitfield on Cicero.

From Stolen Shirt to Open War? — Becoming Brigham, Episode 33

How did a stolen shirt turn a mission to the Native Americans into two decades of war? What would Utah history have looked like if the Saints and the Utes had treated sharing and c...

The Character of Christ

In his April 2026 General Conference address, “The Character of Christ,” President D. Todd Christofferson teaches that becoming like the Savior involves more than The post The Char...

The Rancher Who Was Compelled to Be a Teacher

It was the 1960s, and there were lots of social challenges. But in one small, rural town, the biggest challenge was keeping a teacher for their one-room school. The children weren’...

Crises on Campus: A Christian Student Solution, Part 2

College campuses can feel like hostile territory for students who abide by their Christian faith and values. On today’s edition of Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson continues his insig...

The Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll: The Man Who Challenged God

By Elizabeth Prata We read in history of the great missionaries like John G. Paton, the great preachers like Spurgeon, or the great theologians like Jonathan Edwards. Those are edi...

Sins of the Past Revisited

Way back in 2012 the Washington Post published a story about how teenage Mitt Romney took offense at the long hair of fellow student John Lauber. Lauber was often teased forRead Mo...

Wilford Woodruff: A Fisher of Fish and of Men

President Wilford Woodruff’s life and writings continue to inspire hearts across generations, including my own. His diaries reveal not only his unwavering faith in our Savior Jesus...

Alexander Doniphan: The Man Who Saved Joseph Smith’s Life

An army of perhaps three thousand Missouri militiamen had closed around Far West. Inside were Latter-day Saint families—men, women and children—whose people had already been driven...

Glorying in Jesus Christ

In his April 2026 General Conference address, “Glorying in Jesus Christ,” Elder Aaron T. Hall reflected on Nephi's powerful declaration: “I glory in my Jesus.” The post Glorying i...

Why I Gave Up My Division One Golf Scholarship to Serve a Mission

With the number of missionaries swelling to the highest ever in the history of the church, here’s a glimpse of one new missionary’s farewell talk where he tells why he’d give up hi...

The Best of Us Build Something Bigger Than Ourselves

Many Paths to God? The Rise of Religious Pluralism

Many Paths to God? The Rise of Religious Pluralism A Texas political leader seeking higher office is drawing attention for comments that place Christianity alongside other religiou...

A 52-Week Devotional for Men Who Are Done With Shallow Faith

Screwtape is Hiding in Your Pocket

Robert Ordway, Mere Orthodoxy While reading Vice President Vance's second memoir, Communion, two dots...

What Would It Look Like to Build A Utopia?

Matthew Peterson, Religion Unplugged In times of unrest, our impulse is to seek solutions in painfully precise increments. But what if the only way to bring lasting change is to s...