It appears that Mormon, the abridger of Nephite history, intentionally framed the story of Alma the elder and his people onto Nephi’s vision of the tree of life using word links and other imagery.

After returning from my full-time missionary service, I started work with my father building decks down on the Gulf Coast of Texas. I remember standing there one morning and thinking about how life was now entering a new phase and…

I came across this story recently and it reminded me of the tragic complexity of history. We tend to look back and history through the narratives crafted by historians often get a glimpse of how hard some situations were to…