Book of Mormon warfare can be defined on about three levels, from general to specific:—It's real warfare, as experienced by real people and recorded by a professional military observer.—It's real Iron Age warfare, based on technology and tactics.—It's real Mesoamerican warfare, based on cultural details in the text, modified by a heavy Old Testament influence on the Nephites.We begin to Book of Mormon military commanders on a human level; not as giants bestridin...

This book examines the Book of Exodus in light of Temple Theology, as well as the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, and Sections 84 and 124 of the Doctrine and Covenants. In light of Temple Theology, the Decalogue is properly seen as a covenant, rather than as a moral code alone. In that context, and along with the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants, it is clear Exodus also involves the Endowment. From beginning to end it depicts Moses' effort to bring the ordinances and...

In these days of increasing "wars and rumors of wars" a book showing how the Nephites coped with war is both timely and useful.This book rests on the assumption that the Book of Mormon is a historical document proceeding from a specific time and place. It is not a history in the modern sense. Hugh Nibley wrote that one of the most popular forms of literature in 600 BC was the biography. The intent was to show one had lived righteously and done his duty to God and his fellow man. It ...

A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.“A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." — People Magazine“An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community.” — New York MagazineRuth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authoriti...

When Nicole Hardy's eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy's essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast.Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of thirty-five, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity. As a member of t...

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. L...

Is Mormonism a Christian religion as it claims? Is it the only true Church of Jesus Christ on the earth, replacing all other Christian churches -- as it also claims? The Mormon Deception critically examines the LDS declaration to be the restored Church of Jesus Christ by citing official Mormon sources and comparing them with biblical teaching. It documents why Mormonism does not believe in the biblical Jesus Christ and His death on the cross for sin, despite claims to do so. It also demons...

This book consists of the King James Version Bible with hyperlinks throughout the text to Strong's Dictionary of the Bible. The Strong's Concordances are linked to every verse in the Bible. The Strong's Dictionary is cross-linked and to the Hebrew and Green Concordance.

Beginning with a handful of members in 1830, the church that Joseph Smith founded has grown into a world-wide organization with over 12 million adherents, playing prominent roles in politics, sports, entertainment, and business. Yet they are an oddity. They are considered wholesome, conservative, and friendly on one hand, and clannish, weird, and self-righteous on the other. Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction explains who Mormons are: what they believe and how they live their li...

This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But author Robert M. Price argues this is merely another case of "pseudepigraphy" the genre of fictive "as if" authorship common to the Bible as well. Price urges readers to a new appreciation of the intricate redaction and re...

All of the references are linked into the King James Version of the Bible.The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated study Bible edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield, that popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century.

A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies, provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals. This is no longer the case. These topics are now widely debated and discussed online and in other forums. And when members of the LDS Church come across information that is unfamiliar...