TIL there was another book of scripture called “The Book of Joseph” (of Egypt) that went untranslated.
Read about it here Basically all of LDS 2nd Nephi 3 talks about what Joseph supposedly said
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These are the first sketches of the Independence Temple
See them here
A Retelling of the First Vision
I don’t think the First Vision really happened; I think it is a later story that was meant to bolster
This quote has been influential in my spiritual journey
I dealt with a lot of “what if I’m making a huge mistake” kind of feelings when I first left
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TIL a copy of the Book of Mormon has been to the moon
Read about it here
History of a Controversial Hymn: “Praise to the Man”
WW Phelps wrote “Praise to the Man” in August 1844, about a month after Joseph Smith was killed, and had
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This is the most detailed version of the Pride/Humility cycle I’ve ever seen
Courtesy of Nathan Richardson
Brian Hales responds to the Smith-Entheogen theory
Here is Bryce Blankenagel’s “The entheogenic origins of Mormonism: A working hypothesis“. Here is Brian Hales’s response, “Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi,
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