LDS Gospel topics
Mormon apostle urges teachers to address controversial topics like polygamy and seer stones in class
By Jana Riess — March 3, 2016
Race? Seer stones? Polygamy? Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard says the church's seminary teachers should address controversies openly to "inoculate" students.
Mormons react to first-ever photograph of Joseph Smith’s seer stone
By Jana Riess — August 5, 2015
The 2003 "South Park" depiction of the Book of Mormon's translation process turns out to be more accurate than sanitized LDS images of Joseph Smith poring over the golden plates. What will be the fallout?
President Uchtdorf urges Mormons toward “transparency and openness” in their history
By Jana Riess — March 8, 2014
President Uchtdorf's talk yesterday went a long way toward softening, if not erasing, some Mormons' decades-old fear of professional history.
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