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BYU students solve Mormon mysteries
BYU students solve Mormon mysteries By Christine Rappleye Mormon Times Published: 2010-03-04 00:20:22 PROVO, Utah — The questions usually start simply enough. As the full-time editors of each volume of the Joseph Smith Papers program comb through the journals, histories and other documents of Joseph Smith, questions will pop up from the history of a [...]
Cardinal George Addresses Religious Freedom in Speech at BYU
SALT LAKE CITY 23 February 2010 Catholics and Latter-day Saints …
Golden Plates goes on Display
The world’s oldest multiple-page book – in the lost Etruscan language – has gone on display in Bulgaria’s National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. The book dates back to 600BC The small manuscript, which is …
Utah Ranked 2nd highest in Church attendance- behind Mississippi
Only 22% of Alaskans say they attend religious services at least once a week, making Alaska the least religious state judged by this measure. In Utah and several Southern states, more than half of those surveyed by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life said they were weekly service attenders. Along with Alaskans, residents [...]
LDS add mission in Utah; cut back in Europe, elsewhere
By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 02/12/2010 09:59:19 PM MST // < ![CDATA[ var requestedWidth = 0; // ]]> // < 
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 …
New Mormon Battalion Historic Site Opens
SAN DIEGO 2 February 2010 Visitors will step into history …
The Milk & Strippings Story, Thomas B. Marsh, and Brigham Young
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 [...]
Mormon historical documents create auction buzz
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 [...]
Scribes recorded Prophet’s ‘crooked, broken language’
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 [...]