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Judas

July 17, 2019

Surviving my mother by twelve years, my father  
became my perfect friend, 
having evolved from the anxious and overly-protective
father I’d known as a teenager. 

Timo’s Blessing

July 17, 2019

I remember that the sun shone warm but the air felt cool. A robin would have chirped in the branches that shaded my father, who was immersed in the savory smoke rising from the built-in…

Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi

July 17, 2019

Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85
Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity

Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates

July 17, 2019

Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84
Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. The best way, as discussed by the author, to determine what really happened is by studying other individual’s first-hand accounts about the Gold Plates.

The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy

July 17, 2019

Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019):37–58
Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time period.

Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon An Update

July 17, 2019

Dialogue 52.2 (Spring 2019):1–58Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has
worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so
well for critics who seem certain natural abilities were responsible. For over
180 years, several secular theories have been advanced as explanations.

Patience, Faith, and the Temple in 2019

May 13, 2019

Dialogue 52.1 (2019): 169–178
Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in the endowment ceremony sexist.