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_The Mormon Report
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For your consideration:

In this Mormon moment, LDS Church history blooms | The Salt Lake Tribune

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From the article:
is not clear, he says, if the broader Mormon community will embrace or reject the frank scholarship this group will produce.

Well?
Are you happy to embrace frank scholarship about Mormonisms history?
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)

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Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
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"we believe it will be... more true if we tell it as it is."

Interesting comment.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

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I wonder if he cleared that idea with the brethren. Have they gotten the memo?
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.

B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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He forgot to add Big Love and Sister Wives to his list of artistic endeavors. I'm sure it was just an oversight.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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Interesting interview with Bushman:

CNN.com - Richard Bushman: 'The Book of Mormon' is like looking into a fun-house mirror; the reflection is hilarious but not really you
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