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Additional Topics

The following are additional topic areas related to Church Organization. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth.

• Activities [1]
• Discipline [2]
• Finances [2]
• Missionary Efforts [9]
• Name of the Church [2]
• Prophetic Succession [7]
• Purpose of the Church [1]
• Relief Society [3]
• Statistics and Demographics [7]

FAIR Resources

These links are either to Web pages hosted on the FAIR Website, or to FAIR Papers. FAIR Papers are short articles about specific topics or questions, written by members of FAIR. These articles can be downloaded and read in PDF format and are intended to be distributed by e-mail or print for the general use of our patrons. (To read FAIR Papers you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.) Click on a title below to visit a FAIR Web page or to read the latest version of a FAIR Paper.

"Dan Brown's next book and Mormonism," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki article addresses the speculations regarding Dan Brown's (author of The Divinci Code) book-in-progress regarding Mormons and masonry.

"What Is "The Body of Christ," or Christ’s Universal Church?," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR) Many Christians misunderstand what is meant by "the body of Christ," when it refers to a church.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism

The resources listed below are articles available in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site.

Stan L. Albrecht, "Stake," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1411-1414

Douglas Alder, "Ward," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1541-1543

Richard L. Bushman, Larry C. Porter and Milton V. Backman; "History of the Church," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 598-647

J. Lynn England and W. Keith Warner, "First Presidency," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 512-514

William G. Hartley, Lee Tom Perry and Paul M. Bons; "Organization," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1035-1049

William O. Nelson, "Quorum of the Twelve Apostles," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1185-1189

Ensign Articles

These articles cited below provide information on the topic of this page. The Ensign is one of the official publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When you click on one of the article links below, you are whisked to the article found in the archives of the Church's Web site.

Boyd K. Packer, "The Twelve Apostles," Ensign, November 1996, 6.

Melvin J. Peterson, "I believe that this is truly Christ's church, but why does he need an organization to save his children?," Ensign, February 1980.

Other Resources

The resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site.

William G. Hartley, "The Priesthood Reform Movement, 1908–1922," BYU Studies (1973) Most Latter-day Saints know a good deal about the duties and functions of the various priesthood quorums, but few appreciate the great effort required of past Church leaders to produce the well-ordered priesthood programs which characterize the Church today. Since the restoration of the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthood, the various quorums have been alive and functioning to a greater or lesser degree. But organized and systematic priesthood work as we know it today actually dates from the period of 1908–1922, when a specially called General Priesthood Committee instituted a Churchwide priesthood reform and reorganization movement under the direction of president Joseph F. Smith.

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