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A Monograph Commemorating His Bicentennial Birthday Neil J Flinders Brigham Young University Joseph Smith Academy Nauvoo, Illinois 2005 Table of Contents Part I Page What is Education? 3 Who was Joseph? What Have Others Said About Him? 4 Part II Joseph Smith as a Minister of Education 7 Part III Authority 8 Part IV Historical …

The Phoenicia Ship Expedition has now demonstrated unequivocally that Lehi’s voyage could have left the Arabian Peninsula and sailed around Africa to the America’s rather than attempting to cross the earth’s largest ocean at its widest point, as proposed by Mesoamerican theorists. The History Channel recently released a documentary called Who Really Discovered America? which explores a number of possible incursions …

Director, For Our Day: Prophetic Parallels in the Book of Mormon Director, Joseph Smith Foundation Inspira Project Co-founder, Maidens with a Mission L. Hannah Stoddard was home and privately educated.  She started early, at age 11, working with her father on her first documentary video as graphic design artist.  At 13, she became a primary …

The Scriptural Basis for the Heartland Model Rod L. Meldrum Many proposed Book of Mormon geography theories were originated using a method proposed by Dr. John Sorenson and others who taught that the first step was to create a hypothetical or “internal” map using the 500+ geography related passages. This has lead to more than …

James F. Stoddard III and L. Hannah Stoddard   Book of Mormon Passages for Biblical Christians In our age, the truth and authenticity of the Bible is greatly under attack. Academics and those considering themselves educated ridicule the Biblical account of the Creation, the life spans of the Patriarchs reaching nearly a millennia, the literal …

John P. Pratt   The Lord’s Church was restored according to eternal patterns and order. The first seven members of the Church seem to fit the same Pattern of Seven as do the seven chief angels. The Lord’s restored church was born on Tue 6 Apr 1830. At the time of its founding it had …

Traditions of Scholarship that Shape the Foundations of Education and the Nature of the University Neil J Flinders Introduction This critical essay examines three traditions of scholarship and considers their impact on the foundations of education and the nature of the University. The author’s conclusion is that the evolution of scholarship has formed the foundations for three …

John P. Pratt   What will be discovered in the next 50 years? In the December 1999 issue of Scientific American, prominent scientists wrote a series of articles predicting what is likely to be discovered in the next fifty years. Yet, Sir John Maddox, in the lead article, admits looking into the future is risky business. …

John P. Pratt   Soon we can celebrate seventy jubilees since Joshua crossed the River Jordan. Joshua led the children of Israel into the promised land of Canaan after the Lord divided the waters of the Jordan River for them to cross on dry ground. This miraculous event was similar to the parting of the …

H. Verlan Andersen The Improper Role of Government H. Verlan Anderson Collectivism, The Danger From Within To me, the most basic and important differences which exist between living conditions in one nation and another are largely accounted for by the differences in the laws of those nations and how such laws are executed. I assume …

John P. Pratt   I Have a Question: How did it come to be that our largely non-Christian world reckons years from the birth of Jesus Christ? The Gregorian calendar, which is now used worldwide, began as the Roman Catholic calendar. It reckons years as A.D. (anno Domini, “in the year of the Lord”) or …

John P. Pratt   The priest cycle of temple service appears to be the seventh sacred calendar to testify of key dates in the life of Christ, including the day of his presentation at the temple, the beginning of his public ministry and his resurrection. Last month’s article entitled “Dead Sea Scrolls May Solve Mystery” …

John P. Pratt   Enoch’s Constellations Testify of Christ John P. Pratt All 48 constellation figures from Enoch depict the gospel of Jesus Christ. The star figures in the sky form a very precise map of the heavens and display many allegories which have been preserved as Greek myths. But much more than that, the …

John P. Pratt Answering Objections to Gospel in the Stars John P. Pratt It has been proposed that the ancient star constellations are not simply random musings of shepherds with too much time on their hands, but rather a detailed revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ to antediluvian prophets. That whole thesis, often called …

John P. Pratt   Sacred calendars provide precise dates for King David, his son Solomon, and the dedication of Solomon’s temple, completing the chain of interlocking dates from Adam to Jesus, the son of David. Matthew also provides what appears to be a grand key in his genealogy of Jesus Christ. He points out an …

John P. Pratt   The recent scientific discovery of how to petrify wood in a few days has again raised the question of just how long the process takes in nature. Suppose you were walking through Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, and among all of the petrified trees, you found a petrified squirrel. Suppose …

John P. Pratt   In order to produce permanent star maps which do not suffer from precession, it is proposed that “sidereal coordinates” be defined similarly to ecliptic coordinates, but with the origin of longitude at a fixed star rather than at the vernal equinox. If the zodiac figures were approximately centered every 30° from …

John P. Pratt   The four “royal stars” are the bright stars in the four cornerstone constellations discussed in Part I. The Book of Enoch explains that the stars are named for the Lord’s most faithful servants, and the constellation symbolism is clear enough to indicate just who these stars represent. In Part I of …

John P. Pratt Is God Speaking in Natural Disasters? John P. Pratt Anciently, people saw the hand of God everywhere in nature and even performed experiments to verify that he was causing natural disasters. Today many fail to recognize the hand of God anywhere. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere between these extremes. Is there a …

James F. Stoddard III   A Letter to My Christian Friends James F. Stoddard III In response to what Mormons believe please permit me to add my thoughts. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes referred to as “Mormons” or “Latter-day Saints”) and my ancestry is through Joseph …