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Cracking the Book of Mormon’s “Secret Combinations”?

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Matthew L. Bowen | November 21, 2014 | 13 Replies

Tyndale Versus More in the Book of Mormon

Royal Skousen | November 7, 2014 | 7 Replies

Reason, Experience, and the Existence of God

Daniel C. Peterson | October 31, 2014 | 8 Replies

Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?

Ugo A. Perego and Jayne E. Ekins | October 17, 2014 | 15 Replies

A Response to Grant Palmer’s “Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo”

Brian C. Hales and Gregory L. Smith | October 10, 2014 | 29 Replies

Job: An LDS Reading

Mack C. Stirling | October 3, 2014 | 6 Replies

“What Thank They the Jews”? (2 Nephi 29:4): A Note on the Name “Judah” and Antisemitism

Matthew L. Bowen | September 26, 2014 | 6 Replies

Axes Mundi: Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

Mark Alan Wright | September 12, 2014 | 15 Replies

Nephi: A Postmodernist Reading

Benjamin L. McGuire | September 5, 2014 | 3 Replies

The Sibling Scandals of the Resurrection

Daniel C. Peterson | August 22, 2014 | 8 Replies

A Look at Some “Nonstandard” Book of Mormon Grammar

Stanford Carmack | August 15, 2014 | 59 Replies

Changes in The Book of Mormon

Royal Skousen | August 1, 2014 | 11 Replies

Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster

Loren Blake Spendlove | July 25, 2014 | 7 Replies

Getting into the Meat of the Word of Wisdom

A. Jane Birch | July 11, 2014 | 25 Replies

Reading the Scriptures Geographically: Some Tools and Insights

Taylor Halverson | July 4, 2014 | 13 Replies

Restoration: A Theological Poem in the Book of Mormon

Val Larsen | June 20, 2014 | 24 Replies

Questioning the Comma in Verse 13 of the Word of Wisdom

A. Jane Birch | May 23, 2014 | 44 Replies

Dissenters: Portraying the Church as Wrong So They can be Right Without It

Brian C. Hales | May 9, 2014 | 74 Replies

Separated but not Divorced: The LDS Church’s Uncomfortable Relationship with its Polygamous Past

Craig L. Foster | May 2, 2014 | 48 Replies

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