Our Purpose
The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—casually dubbed Mormonism—is a modern epic. As a website, we desire to share that story with the world by sharing engaging, factual, and succinct accounts of the faith, dedication, and sacrifice of church members. We seek to be an honest resource where one can find biographies of past presidents and other influential members of the Church, personal accounts of church members, sourced articles regarding historical events, and online books on church history.
In addition to providing educational content, this website seeks to provide knowledge that may be used to satisfy one’s own curiosity, clear up confusion regarding certain historically-rooted subjects within the Church, strengthen personal testimonies, and promote open conversation between members and non-members alike. We invite you to not only read the information provided about the history of the Church, but to ponder upon the things which you learn.
Sincere questions and comments are always encouraged, as is guest content.
How a Nazi SS Soldier and a Holocaust Survivor Fell in Love and Found the Church
The following article by O. Håkan Palm first appeared on LDSLiving.com on February 14, 2017. Agnes Veronika Erdös and Gustav Palm experienced World War II under vastly different conditions: she as a prisoner in a concentration camp and he as an SS soldier. Amazingly,...
Brief but Meaningful Mormon History Found in War-Torn Aleppo
The following article by Jason Swensen first appeared on Deseret News on February 2, 2017. In recent years, the Syrian city of Aleppo has been a staging ground of death, violence and horror. Civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and legions have been forced...
Defining the ‘Best Books’: Scriptural Canon in 1875
The dilemma that accompanies any attempt to nail down the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon is apparent. With a constant flow of revelation stemming from a living prophet, it is hard to restrain our religion's tenets to simply the Book of Mormon. And it was never...
Did Brigham Young Reject Lucy Mack Smith’s Book on Joseph?
The following article by Scot and Maurine Proctor first appeared on LDSMag.com on February 1, 2017. In this article, published yesterday, we talked about how Lucy’s Preliminary Notes were extensively edited before they became the book we have had for years in the...
Antebellum America Brings Forth its Prophet
Parley Pratt remains the most eloquent thus far in describing the atmosphere that pervaded before the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, stating that we “…can never understand precisely what is meant by Restoration, unless we understand what [was] lost or taken away”...
African Americans in Latter-day Saint History
Black Latter-day Saints and Black Past.org - Introduction by Quintard Taylor. African Americans have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) almost since its founding in 1830. Their numbers were initially small, but their role was...
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