New Mormon mission: How to teach members the messy part of LDS history, theology
Essays explain the complexities of the faith, but will they help retain skeptics or chase away the converted?
Kathleen Flake, a professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University, is the author of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle.
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