What do you get when you mix buried gold plates, angelic visitations, a seer stone in a hat, and a teenage farm boy turned prophet? A religion with millions of followers… and a story stranger than fiction.
In The Prophet Paradox, JJ dives headfirst into the tangled origins of Mormonism—not as a believer or a basher, but as a curious mind tracing the bizarre and beautiful threads of America’s first homegrown faith. From Joseph Smith’s controversial visions to temple secrets, frontier persecution, plural marriage, and prophetic death, this book explores the highs, lows, and cosmic weirdness of a movement that never stopped evolving.
Was Joseph a charlatan, a channel, or something in between?
What was he really tapping into?
And what does it say about belief itself?
Pages: 40 Est. Reading Time: 27 Minutes
What do you get when you mix buried gold plates, angelic visitations, a seer stone in a hat, and a teenage farm boy turned prophet? A religion with millions of followers… and a story stranger than fiction.
In The Prophet Paradox, JJ dives headfirst into the tangled origins of Mormonism—not as a believer or a basher, but as a curious mind tracing the bizarre and beautiful threads of America’s first homegrown faith. From Joseph Smith’s controversial visions to temple secrets, frontier persecution, plural marriage, and prophetic death, this book explores the highs, lows, and cosmic weirdness of a movement that never stopped evolving.
Was Joseph a charlatan, a channel, or something in between?
What was he really tapping into?
And what does it say about belief itself?
Pages: 40 Est. Reading Time: 27 Minutes