Adventures of a Church Historian

Adventures of a Church Historian
Author: Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1998
Genre: Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN: 9780252023811

Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship. Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982. Arrington's church appointment came at a crucial point in LDS history, when the institution was being transformed from a regional church whose ecclesiastical hierarchy directly presided over its congregants into a modern, worldwide church with an elaborate bureaucracy. His description of conducting research in the LDS Church Archives in the days of Elder Joseph Fielding Smith and Brother A. Will Lund provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the LDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Riveting chapters on the actions of the controversial Historical Department reveal details of Arrington's release and replacement as the old system gave way to the new.

Trial and Triumph

Trial and Triumph
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1885767544

for saxophone quartetA slow movement which explores the beautiful sonorities of saxophones played softly.

Adventures in Churchland

Adventures in Churchland
Author: Dan Kimball
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310313783

Would Jesus Attend Church Today? Among the top ten trends that are changing American life, Time magazine recently listed a rising dissatisfaction with organized religion. Though many people today like Jesus, they are growing tired of traditional religious institutions. Even those who follow Jesus aren't so sure they always like what Christianity and the church represent. For many years, Dan Kimball would have agreed, until an encounter with a small group of Jesus followers started him on a journey that challenged him to rethink everything he had ever assumed about the church. In Adventures in Churchland, Dan invites you to join him as he uncovers what the Bible really says about the church and reminds us that it's more than just an institution; it's a beautiful mess of broken people learning to follow Jesus together. As you journey with Dan, you'll begin to see the church as Jesus intended it to be: a community of forgiven misfits coming together to serve the world around them with passion, creativity, innovation, and grace. "If you don’t like the church, or if you’re thinking about leaving, please read this book first. Dan’s stories will make you laugh, make you think, and make you appreciate the church like never before." – Mark Batterson, author of The Circle Maker "Dan encourages us to break through the tension and messiness that church communities inevitably encounter to experience the beauty of being in community and sharing God's infinite love with others." – Zach Lind, drummer, Jimmy Eat World "I am so glad that my friend Dan has written this book, because there is a lot of confusion out there about Jesus and the church." – Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

God's Timeline

God's Timeline
Author: Linda Finlayson
Publisher: CF4Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781527100985

Featuring pull-out, colour timelines Illustrated throughout Introduce your children to God's timeline

Church History in Plain Language

Church History in Plain Language
Author: Bruce Leon Shelley
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Church history
ISBN: 9780849938610

Traces the history of the Church, focusing on the motivations of its founders, conflicts, key figures, and defining events over the centuries.

Brigham Young

Brigham Young
Author: Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0345803213

Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people and his church for thirty years, who combined piety and the pursuit of power to leave an indelible stamp on Mormon society and the culture of the Western frontier. From polygamy to the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the attempted preservation of Young’s Great Basin Kingdom, we are given a fresh understanding of the controversies that plagued Young in his contentious relations with the federal government. Brigham Young draws its subject out of the marginal place in history to which the conventional wisdom has assigned him, and sets him squarely in the American mainstream, a figure of abiding influence in our society to this day.

Adventures in Missing the Point

Adventures in Missing the Point
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310267137

Examines how the complex issues of the world's culture has influenced the ministry and message of the Christian church on such topics as salvation, worship, the Bible, and sin.

Fire and Sword

Fire and Sword
Author: Leland Homer Gentry
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Missouri
ISBN: 9781589581203

Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares. The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment¿represents a moment of intense crisis in Mormon history. Representing the greatest extremes of devotion and violence, commitment and intolerance, physical suffering and terror--mobbings, battles, massacres, and political ¿knockdowns¿--it shadowed the Mormon psyche for a century. In the lush Missouri landscape of the Mormon imagination where Adam and Eve had walked out of the garden and where Adam would return to preside over his posterity, the towering religious creativity of Joseph Smith and clash of religious stereotypes created a swift and traumatic frontier drama that changed the Church.

Courage and Conviction

Courage and Conviction
Author: Mindy Withrow
Publisher: CF4kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Christian biography
ISBN: 9781845502225

Read about the reformers in the 16th and 17th centuries who changed the Christian church. Look deeper into issues such as the Scientific Revolution, wars of religion, the Puritans, and the settling of the Americas.