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Advice for Understanding Church History

On February 7, 2017 · In Blog

The February 2017 issue of the Ensign and Liahona magazines contains an article I wrote titled, “Understanding Church History by Study and Faith.” In the article, I introduce five concepts that help make sense of historical questions:

The past is gone – only pieces remain Facts don’t speak, but storytellers do The […]

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Why Sensible History for Everybody?

On June 1, 2015 · In Blog

The word history refers to three different but related things–to the past, to the stories people tell about the past, and to the formal inquiry into the past and its stories.

In my mind, the best evocations of history are sensible–they are:

clear and rational (they “make sense”), wise and practical (“common sense”), and […]

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