Historian Benjamin Park notes increasing tensions in the field of Mormon studies between scholars and the institutional church.

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“Miracles exist,” Latter-day Saint apostle Jeffrey R ... the New Testament or the Doctrine and Covenants or the Book of Mormon.” The popular apostle has struggled with health issues on ...