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Is This Photograph Finally Joseph Smith? (Enhanced Renderings)

15 Sep 202424 Feb 2026

Note: updated with enhanced final renderings November, 2025. Introduction The obsession with the physical likeness of the prophet Joseph Smith is a Mormon cultural phenomenon fueled by many weighty factors:…

King Follet Sermon Witness: Thomas Bullock

12 Nov 20211 Jun 2023

Following my last post, today we examine another first-hand account of Joseph Smith's famous sermon given at the funeral of King Follet on Sunday the 7th of April, 1844. (This…

The Beautiful Green Valley

16 Oct 202131 May 2023

Today I am sharing another testimony borne by an "Old Nauvooer" in the Salt Lake City 20th ward around the turn of the 20th century, a nearly forgotten testimony from…

Brother Joseph: Correcting Corrupted Youths

14 Oct 202131 May 2023

An anecdote from the life of Joseph Smith shows the wisdom he possessed in attempting to rectify the course of troubled teenagers who he knew would otherwise go on to…

Brother Joseph: No Fighting Among Saints

8 Oct 202131 May 2023

As the mayor of Nauvoo, Joseph Smith was keen on ensuring that the city represented the best of Mormonism as the religion was (and is) intended to pave the way…

Brother Joseph: Prophecy and Meteorology

23 Sep 202131 May 2023

Elder Daniel Tyler, who now resides at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, has furnished us with a number of items concerning the Prophet Joseph—not only incidents in his life, but some…

Brother Joseph: The Dead Brought to Life

22 Sep 202131 May 2023

[Elder Levi Curtis, of Springville, Utah, relates the following incident which, as he states, was told him by one of the principal parties referred to.] About the month of August,…

Doctrinal Expositions

One of the Plainest Books

25 May 201920 Jan 2022

The Beast of Revelation as an Extraterrestrial Introduction The following is a curated reproduction of an electrifying discourse by Joseph Smith that he gave just a year previous to his…

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Classic Truth: The Revelation of John Vs. Daniel

26 Apr 20193 Mar 2022

Sermon delivered by Joseph Smith the Prophet at the General Conference of the Church at Nauvoo, Ill. on Saturday April 8, 1843: The subject I intend to speak upon this…

Nephite Seer Stones

20 Apr 20183 Mar 2022

There is a unique proof that the Hopewell Indian civilization of North America were in fact the Nephites of the Book of Mormon, and it is found in a ubiquitous…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.