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Gospel Topics Essays on The Church’s official website. Most active members are not aware of The Church acknowledging many difficult issues with its own history, truth claims, and culture.   If you wish to share resources that would not be viewed as ‘anti-Mormon,’ these essays should be perceived as friendly to True Believing Mormons (TBMs) and will serve as an Read more...

Facebook Group for those who intend to stay in the church. We are a community of Latter-day Saints who, after learning the many challenges in our history and doctrine, seek to remain meaningfully engaged in our faith community. We do so by embracing what Alma described in Mosiah 18: We seek to lift each other’s burdens that they may be Read more...

BYU researchers: The JST was lifted from another source: A Recently Recovered Source: Rethinking Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation MARCH 16, 2017 Haley Wilson and Thomas Wayment, Ancient Scripture The following are a few key passages from the article we wrote together. When we first started the project our goal was the following: to compare the changes made by Joseph Smith Read more...

This website deals with Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy from his initial curiosity in the early 1830s to his 1840s sealings to plural wives and his teachings of the principle as a commandment.   It is the first online site completely dedicated to presenting this topic to a mainstream LDS audience, written from a faithful perspective. History, esoteric theology, and controversies are all Read more...

Produced by the Church. Begins to introduce some of the more difficult aspects of Mormon history in an accessible format.   A New Narrative History Read the inspiring true story of the women and men who dedicated their lives to establishing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Volume 1, The Standard of Truth, 1815–1846 and Read more...

Podcast series produced by the LDS Church telling its own history accompanies the book series. While many complicated issues are addressed for the first time in this sort of accessible format, critics will note that the narratives are very apologist in nature, white-washed, and the podcast hosts gaslight audience members who aren’t aware of issues like the extent of Joseph’s Read more...