Mormonism category: 1202 books

We are all waiting for something to happen in life ~ waiting to graduate, waiting to get married, to go on a mission, to get healthy, to be healed, waiting to have a baby, waiting to die, waiting to find a job, waiting for a raise, waiting for someone to come home from a mission, waiting to retire,...

When the Church released photos of the brown seer stone that was owned and used by Joseph Smith, the news ignited a firestorm of curiosity and controversy. People wanted more information and wondered why they hadn't been aware of the stone's existence.This book discusses the origins of Joseph...

The story of Joseph Smith’s last journey to Carthage and the horse that carried him. A deeply moving ride through Mormon history. Tells the story of the martyrdom from the viewpoint of absolute innocence. One of the lowliest figures in Mormon history, the black stallion named...

Written by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, this book contains his first-hand account of not only his own personal trials during the period in which the Latter-Day Saints were settled in Missouri, but many of the persecutions that the Mormon people underwent as a whole.

In Making the Most of Yourself, Sterling W. Sill puts in writing another fifty-two of his popular Sunday evening radio addresses. Eminently successful in business, education and Church affairs, he here charts the path to success as only the experienced traveler of that road can do.

This compilation of groundbreaking articles about the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on Joseph’s meeting with John C. Calhoun Jr., a crime scene analysis of the Carthage Jail, the Joseph/Hyrum...

When you think of the word worship, do you think of such devotional acts as praying or partaking of the sacrament or performing temple rites or even just enjoying the beauty of God's creation?Do you remember times when those moments felt flat, devoid of the influence of the divine?Do...

The Archive of Restoration Culture was founded on the belief that Joseph Smith and the Restoration cannot be appreciated without an understanding of his environment. Student-scholars began working on the Archive project in 1997 and were followed during the next two years by other teams of advanced...

This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on how the El Niño weather pattern may have made Lehi’s voyage to the Americas possible, geological insights into the destruction...

Before we were born, we had a choice to make—a choice between happiness and misery. "But the war continues. We're still tugged towards Zion on the one hand ... and Babylon on the other." In Tug of War, Time Out for Women presenter Mary Ellen Edmunds discusses the differences between Zion and Babylon...

Counted as one of the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lydia Knight’s life story is part of the foundation of the restored gospel.  As a broken hearted young mother, Lydia was introduced to Joseph Smith and Syndey Rigdon and the church. Renewed hope and strength...

Riveting and faith-promoting, Supersonic Saints is a collection of more than 15 true stories of LDS pilots who felt the hand of the Lord in their lives when they needed it most. Many of these pilots are still active in the United States Armed Forces. All of them are alive and active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In these days of increasing “wars and rumors of wars” a book showing how the Nephites coped with war is both timely and useful. This book rests on the assumption that the Book of Mormon is a historical document proceeding from a specific time and place. It is not a history in the modern sense....

Readers of An Approach to the Book of Mormon, the sixth volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, will find erudite and sometimes unexpected insights into this book of scripture - as evidenced by this excerpt from the preface to the 1964 edition. (p.xii-xiii)When in 1946 this writer composed...