Mormonism category: 1202 books

For all its advances, our secular age has also weakened ties to religious belief and affiliation, and Latter-day Saints have not been immune. In recent years, many faithful Church members have encountered challenging aspects of Church history, belief, or practice. Feeling isolated, alienated, or misled,...

After living with Joseph Smith for seven years, biographer Richard Lyman Bushman went “on the road” for a year. After delivering the final proofs of his landmark study, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling to Knopf in July 2005, Bushman crisscrossed the country from coast to coast, delivering numerous...

The lectures herewith presented have been prepared in accordance with the request and appointment of the First Presidency of the Church. The greater number of the addresses were delivered before the Theology Class of the Church University; and, after the close of the class sessions, the lectures were...

The Chocolate Chip became famous for its ability to stand firm against the heat of the oven. Be the Chocolate Chip helps to bring to life the qualities that help us as followers of Christ and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stand strong and firm in a world of ever-increasing...

The essays making up this collection reflect attentiveness to both ways of understanding the phrase “theology of scripture.” Each essay takes up the relatively un-self-conscious work of reading a scriptural text but then—at some point or another—asks the self-conscious question of exactly...

Job is perhaps the most difficult to understand of all books in the Bible. While a cursory reading of the text seems to relay a simple story of a righteous man whose love for God was tested through life's most difficult of challenges and rewarded for his faith through those trials, a closer reading...

2nd Edition Revised and Expanded Q. I'm an LDS missionary in a Spanish-speaking mission. Is there a reference I can use without having to carry yet another book with me? A. You need The Gospel in Spanish. It’s available for all mobile devices. Q. I have to give a talk in church next...

During her long life, NELLIE HUNT COLLINGS (1883-1961) kept copious journals detailing life on a small Idaho farm. Interspersed with those entries were bits of poetry, most relating to the things that were central to her--family and community. She celebrated the small things in verses that spoke from...

Outstanding Stories by General Authorities lives up to its title. Leon R. Hartshorn, a popular teacher and lecturer, has skillfully selected stories that are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always inspirational. Frequently they call to mind the brethren who told them—their personalities...

In This Day and Always, you'll enjoy the collected messages of hope, comfort, and joy that Lloyd Newell has delivered on the international broadcast 'Music and the Spoken Word.' The book is organized into such subjects as adversity, change, compassion, death, forgiveness, gratitude, service, simplicity, and tolerance. These short essays will uplift and inspire all ages.

Although the Pearl of Great Price is relatively short, its scope is remarkably broad, recording revelations to prophets in several dispensations — from Abraham and Moses to Joseph Smith. It provides deep and powerful insights into crucial Restoration doctrines, particularly doctrines relating to...

For over a decade, Boyd Petersen has been an active voice in Mormon studies and thought. In essays that steer a course between apologetics and criticism, striving for the balance of what Eugene England once called the “radical middle,” he explores various aspects of Mormon life and culture—from...

A series of lectures presented by Brigham Young University educator, Hyrum L. Andrus, on the doctrinal themes of the Doctrine and Covenants.

More people ought to know about a valuable series of studies in Church history coming out of the BYU Department of Church History and Doctrine. Each year, BYU religion faculty members have concentrated their attention on a selected region important to Latter-day Saints. The results are informatively documented, comfortably written and well indexed, and they tell some good stories.