Description A Record Shall Be Kept: Understanding and Defending the History of the Church brings together a distinctive group of Latter-day Saint scholars who participated in FAIR’s 2024 conference, Understanding and Defending the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This collection of essays explores a wide range of historical, theological, and cultural topics—spiritual gifts in the early Church, questions of violence on the nineteenth-century frontier, debates over scripture and translation, and interpretations of prophecy and the Anthon manuscript. Edited by Jared Riddick, Sarah N. Allen, and Trevor Holyoak, this volume exemplifies an unapologetically faithful yet intellectually rigorous approach to the past. Written by “disciple-scholars” whose careers often lie outside the academy, these proceedings offer fresh insights for students, researchers, and lay readers alike, highlighting the ongoing vitality of Latter-day Saint apologetic thought. Contributors:Matthew S. McBride, T. Benjamin Spackman, Paul Bryner, Spencer Kraus, Sarah N. Allen, Brian C. Hales, John S. Thompson, Craig L. Foster, Allen Hansen, Stephen O. Smoot, Christopher James Blythe
