By Roger Terry Or right-click to download audio file here: The Appearance and Disappearance of Lourdes Amarille Estrada Over a dozen years ago, when I was a new editor for the Liahona, the international magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was sent to the Philippines for two …
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An Agnostic View of Joseph Smith: A Possible Prophet Puzzle Solution
By Ryan Stuart Bingham Nearly forty years ago, Jan Shipps challenged Joseph Smith’s biographers to reconcile “the charlatan-true prophet dichotomy which has plagued Mormon history from the beginning.”1 While biographers have presented evidence with increasing rigor and have offered broader interpretations of Joseph Smith, the alternate distractions of devotion and incredulity have maintained the old …