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Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of theBook of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world. Gutjahr looks at how theBook of Mormonemerged from the burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the subject of ridicule--Mark Twain called it \"chloroform in print\"--has more than 150 million copies in print in more than a hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith's influential book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet, and has featured in everything from comic books and action figures to feature-length films and an award-winning Broadway musical.

In addition to baptism, a second foundational narrative that demonstrates Joseph Smith’s authority was the establishment of the Mormon apostleship. His translations and revelations called for major initiatives that required increasing amounts of commitment from his adherents, but the revelations also required a certain amount of malleability. Smith established certain forms of authority, such as priesthood and sacraments, through his revelations and then molded and reformed them through additional revelations to meet the evolving needs of his church. In doing this, Smith demonstrated his ability to control the narrative and shape its authority. As his theology developed and his lay

In the article concerning Mitt Romney's polygamous ancestors (Feb. 25) is a photo of a sculpture of a man identified as Romney's ancestor Parley...

[Orson Pratt] was an apostle of the \"Church of Latter day Saints,\" so surely he knew the name of the church. The statement that my great-great-grandfather carried was obviously given to him in June 1838 (or perhaps later).

It was Laguna Tribe members who greeted Fathers Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Antanasio Dominguez. These Spaniards are believed to be the first Europeans to visit a Wasatch canyon on Sept. 22, 1776. On that day, at an 8,200-foot summit that separates Strawberry Reservoir and Spanish Fork Canyon, the Spaniards left the Colorado River drainage and entered the Great Basin. From 1933 through 1943, CCC members worked on trails like Mill B-Mill A, Mount Olympus, Mill Creek Bowman Fork, Bowman-Butler Fork, Elbow-Smith Fork, Storm Mountain, Church Fork, Doughnut Falls, Greens Basin, Kesler Peak, Maple Grove, Days Fork and Desolation Trail. Jump Page B8: Mormon leader [Brigham Young] wanted to preserve canyons. Canyon streams ran mills like this one, at State Street and North Temple in Salt Lake. Emma Mine developers James Woodman, left, and Robert Chisholm lean on mule. Utah Historical Society Wasatch canyons provided raw materials to build a city, including rock for Salt Lake LDS temple.

  [Kenneth Ray Langdon] started school at a one room school. He graduated Cache High School 1946. He attended Coyne Electric & Radio School, Chicago. He was drafted in the army in 1951. He served 2 years mostly in Korea & in Japan graduated to the rank of corporal. With the GI Bill, he went to Cameron College in Lawton OK for an AA Then to Oklahoma State for a BS and MS in Plant Pathology. Finally to Gainesville FL to the University of Florida finish a PHD degree with a major in Plant Pathology and split minors in Botany and Nematology, graduating in 1963. Dr. Langdon worked with the Fla Dept. of Agriculture, Div of Plant Industry, first as a Nematologist then as a Botanist.

[Jared Pratt]'s son Orson Pratt established the association to \"collect and register the dates of births, marriages, places of residence and deaths of all descendants of my four brothers and myself,\" according to a family history book. Orson Pratt entered the Salt Lake Valley with Erastus Snow on July 21, 1847, three days ahead of Brigham Young and the main pioneer company. \"We always like to remind the Young family we made it here first,\" [Matt Grow] said. Three of Orson's brothers also joined the LDS Church, and Orson and Parley later became apostles.

Do Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have anything to contribute to theological conversations about the nature of God? The article explores this question through the lens of Latter-day Saint conceptions of matter and agential embodiment that may be useful in generalizing material theologies and provide a resource for other material-based views of deity. The argument will examine the question by first exploring the nature of agency articulated from three perspectives: 1) Process thinking in the life sciences; 2) materialist feminism; and 3) evolutionary biology. The article then suggests that the materialism of Mormonism, while in the first stages of theological engagement, is likely to provide possible dialogues with other religious traditions, looking at mattered and embodied conceptions of deity, including trinitarian ones.