Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt

For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people s ties to religious belief and affiliation. Latter-day Saints have not been immune to this trend. In recent years, many faithful Church members have encountered challenging aspects of Church history, belief, or practice. Feeling isolated, alienated, or misled, some struggle to stay. Some simply leave. Many search for a reliable and faithful place to work through their questions. The abundance of information online can make them feel frustrated. Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt offers people who struggle with questions and people who love those who struggle practical ways to stay planted in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Rather than attempting to answer every possible question or doubt, Planted presents an empathetic, practical, and candid dialog about the relationship of doubt and faith.

Religion & Spirituality

Patrick Q. Mason

Christian Books & Bibles

Deseret Book

Deseret Book Company

Proclaim Peace examines what it means to follow the Prince of Peace in a world of violence. The book seeks not to promote any particular ideology, but rather to invite readers, especially the rising generation, to reflect seriously on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleship. As such, it represents a spiritual journey by two believing scholars of peace that analyzes scripture and breathes new life into familiar and beloved Restoration texts.The Restoration encompasses a rich, if somewhat underappreciated, theology of peace. The heart of that theology is captured in a few core ideas: all humans are inherently divine and eternally interrelated, enduring power can only be achieved through persuasion and love, conflict is built into creation and can be constructively transformed for godly purposes. In a world plagued by violence, it is easy to see it as an inescapable part of the human condition. But Mason and Pulsipher believe, with President Russell M. Nelson, that "peace is possible" in this world and that the "descendants of Abraham . . . are in a pivotal position to emerge as peacemakers." This book is an effort to lift up the Restoration's distinctive principles that invite its followers and friends to renounce violence and proclaim Christ's good news of love and peace to a world that desperately needs it.

Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict

J. David Pulsipher

BYU/Maxwell Institute/Deseret Book

Product Description 
The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees in upstate New York. Joseph had questions, and Jesus had answers. That was two hundred years ago. As the Restoration enters its third century, the world has new questions. A loving God has answers. In Restoration, scholar and author Patrick Mason reflects on what it means for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to participate in the ongoing Restoration. Every generation must rediscover the gospel anew, and this book breathes new life into well-worn terms and phrases. What does it mean to restore Israel ? How can a church with less than one percent of the world s population be true ? What baggage have we picked up these past two centuries, and how do we move forward with confidence, relevance, and impact? The Restoration was intended to bless all of our Heavenly Parents children, especially the marginalized and vulnerable among us. This book will inspire and challenge you to rethink, recommit, and respond to God s call to the 21st-century world. 
 Review 
"Patrick Mason is like a tutor in the course of life, bridging the gap between the ideals of a faithful life and the daily, lived experience. He shows us the beauty of our ideals, their eternal worth, their preciousness. But he breaks down those ideals into relatable, actionable principles with stories, metaphors and common sense. In Restoration, he applies this technique to our Heavenly Parents' vast and potentially overwhelming kingdom-building project. He shows us the glory of it, while also stripping away the human fences we've built around its core. Reading Mason is like confronting a complicated math problem, and rather than being discouraged by it, we marvel at how much of it we already know how to solve." --Neylan McBaine, author of 
Women at Church and 
Pioneering the Vote\nFor anyone who cares about the Church s mission in the twenty-first century, Restoration is a necessary book. Patrick Mason builds on the early leaders radical view that our charge is to renovate all of human society. He points to a few accretions we need to slough off to ready ourselves and then lays out areas calling for our best efforts. This is a strong read, but written with such a light touch and good humor, that I could not put it down. --Richard Bushman, author of 
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling\nThis stirring, significant, spirited, and brightly written book summons Latter-day Saints to reenvision the Restoration as, indeed, every generation must do if it is to remain maximally relevant and appealing without surrendering its essential claims. Part of that reenvisioning, Patrick Mason argues, should be a commitment to the renovation of the world which powerfully reminds me of tikkun olam, the religious duty of repairing the world advocated by Jewish thinkers since antiquity. Restoration: God s Ongoing Love for the World should and surely will stimulate an important conversation. --Daniel C. Peterson President, The Interpreter Foundation 
 About the Author 
Patrick Q. Mason is the author of several books for Latter-day Saint and academic audiences, including Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt, and What Is Mormonism?: A Student's Introduction. Mason is an associate professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University, where he holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture. A Utah native, Mason was trained in American history at Brigham Young University and the University of Notre Dame. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania, has served on the boards of the Mormon History Association and Dialogue Foundation, and is an advisor and contributor to Faith Matters. Mason currently lives with his wife Melissa and their four children in Logan, Utah.

Restoration: God's Call to the 21st-Century World

Faith Matters Publishing

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