Commentary: Forget AI and proper channels. Remember when Latter-day Saints wrote directly to their prophets?

Today, research historian Ardis Parshall writes, members are taught to address questions to local lay leaders or listen closely to General Conference sermons for answers to help guide their lives.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Church leaders sing the hymn "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" at General Conference in October 2024. Research historian Ardis E. Parshall recalls times members wrote letters directly to their top church leaders.