M E R I D I A N     M A G A Z I N E Haiti: Returning to Church after the Quake By Maurine Proctor Photography by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine and Scot Proctor, Meridian’s editor and publisher, are currently in Haiti with 125 …

SAN DIEGO 2 February 2010 Visitors will step into history …

Thomas B. Marsh and his wife Elizabeth were baptized on September 3, 1830, and were therefore among the earliest members of the church. (Dan Vogel calculates that they were the 55th and 56th members, preceding all the future apostles save for William Smith and the Pratt brothers).[1] Marsh became an important early church leader and [...]

Some of the early Mormon Church’s most poignant and embarrassing episodes are recounted in a trove of letters and other original documents sold at auction this week in New York. None of the items, from the descriptions on the auction house Web site, appears to contradict history. But they do illuminate the bitter contention between [...]

By Nick Newman Mormon Times Published: 2010-01-26 00:27:26 Joseph Smith was a terrible writer. While that statement might sound foreign to members, considering his testimony and revelations have been spread around the world in more than 160 languages, it should come as no surprise when you realize the Prophet had no more than a third-grade [...]

SALT LAKE CITY 25 January 2010 A new temple of …

New LDS emphasis: Care for the needy Salt Lake Tribune December 9, 2009 By Peggy Fletcher Stack Compassion for the elderly and infirm that has come to characterize Thomas S. Monson’s ministry soon will be embraced more fully by the worldwide church he leads. The LDS Church is adding “to care for the poor and [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Corvallis doctor Mark Rampton said Wednesday that he’d seen 80 patients — “and more tragedy in one day than I want to see in a lifetime.” Rampton arrived in the earthquake-flattened nation Monday with a 20-member volunteer medical team from Salt Lake City, assembled by the Humanitarian Aid branch of the Mormon [...]

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Bouncing around on the trend-tossed seas of 21st-century book publishing, Mormon scholarship seems to have docked at the granddaddy of all prestigious presses: Oxford University. By all accounts, the unlikely partnership between the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an upstart American faith seems to be working. Mormon writers, particularly historians, get the academic [...]