Elder Steven E. Snow Candidly Explains Why the LDS Gospel Topics Essays Are Not Publicized by the Church

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 July 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Elder Steven E. Snow candidly explains why the LDS Gospel Topics Essays are not publicized by the LDS Church.

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0:00.0	We'll open into the story.
0:04.2	The history will be some of the issues that sometimes rise associated with church history
0:12.1	and our doctrine.
0:13.7	We try to cover those with some essays which are linked to LDS.org under Gospel topics.
0:20.8	The brother and two years ago gave us 12 questions to answer.
0:26.2	They included race in the priesthood, polygamy, the translation, the book of Mormon, on and
0:32.1	on.
0:33.1	Nine of those have now been answered and three questions remain to be answered.
0:38.2	We're still working on those.
0:39.4	We should conclude our work by the end of this year.
0:42.6	If you haven't had a chance to look at those essays, we'd encourage you to do so and share
0:47.0	them with your friends.
0:49.9	We're in the process of letting leaders take presents and bishops know about them so they
0:55.2	can be a resource in the events, some of their members are having questions or challenges
1:01.3	about those issues.
1:04.3	Book of Abraham essay was just released in July.
1:07.9	That's the most recent of the nine essays that have been published online.
1:13.3	I think it'd be helpful to know how we chose to roll those out.
1:16.7	It was a soft rollout.
1:18.1	There was an announcement saying you can go to this website to learn everything weird
1:22.1	about the Mormon church you ever wanted to learn.
1:26.4	Yet we had a lot of people struggling with some of these issues.
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