On Janurary 31, John Dehlin, founder of Mormon Stories published the initial results of a survey, I studied church history and lost my belief, I ceased to believe in the church's doctrine/theology, 'The three lowest ranked reasons include reasons that some members and leaders have pointed to as reasons some lose their faith: 'I wanted to, engage in behaviors viewed as sinful by the church (e.g. LDS elder Marlin Jensen. He was the first baptized Latter Day Saint, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's golden plates, one of the first Latter Day Saint apostles, and the Second The headline "Elder Marlin Jensen Apologizes for Proposition 8" is a bit misleading. Some Internet-savvy Mormons are struggling to reconcile the correlated views they learned in church classes with the history they find on the Internet. Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune 2/20/08 Elder Marlin Jensen of the LDS Church's First Quorum of Seventy has been replaced as the church's historian and will become an emeritus general authority in October 2012. Pages 16-20 – #8 – View of the Hebrews Cowdery-Ethan Smith connection? Terryl Givens once wrote of Elder Jensen: "Marlin Jensen has done more to further the cause of Mormon history than any person of the current generation." Pages 20-21 – #8 – Did B.H. By Jana Riess — January 2, 2014 . He served as Executive Director of the Church History Department and was sustained as Church Historian/Recorder in the April 2005 general conference. Monday, February 25, 2008. He served in the Presidency of the Seventy and as the executive director of the Curriculum, Historical, Priesthood, and Family and Church History Departments. A set of events, inadvertently, and perhaps symbolically started by the LDS Church Historian have been unfolding, bringing an awareness of this "crisis." He continued saying the church has, "a strategy to get church history onto the Web," and that the church is "working on an initiative to answer some of these more pressing questions. He is a loving husband and father of eight Jensen Calls Our Time an Apostasy Recently, Elder Marlin K. Jensen was subject to a Q & A at Utah State University. This truly shocked me. Elder Marlin K. Jensen Questions And Answers. Page 38 – Facsimile 1 – Condition of the Papyri, Page 38 – Facsimile #1 – Penciled portion, Page 53 – (Paragraph 3) – Helen Mar Kimball. Marlin Keith Jensen (born May 18, 1942) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1989. “We went there often. Page 37 – #1 – Was Abraham the Author of the Papyri? 7 – Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims, Page 72 – #2 – Kinderhook Plates and the Book of Abraham. The problem is not so much the discovery of particular details that are deal breakers for the faithful; the problem is a loss of faith and trust in an institution that was less that forthcoming to begin with." Tribune file photo In this 2009 photo, LDS Church Historian and Recorder Marlin Jensen presents Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with a copy of The Joseph Smith Papers, volume two. Oliver H. P. Cowdery (October 3, 1806 – March 3, 1850) was, with Joseph Smith, an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836. The two men were companions during their full-time missions in Germany. Jensen, the church’s official historian, would not provide any figures on the rate of defections, but he told Reuters that attrition has accelerated in the last five or … Book: Playing with Shadows: Voices Of Dissent In T... Mormon Media Studies Symposium 2012: "Mormon Momen... January 31, in an article titled "Number of faithful Mormons rapidly declining", KUTV 4. Page 38 – Facsimile #1 – Lion Couch Egyptologists Differing Views. This may challenge conventional wisdom that some who lose their faith do so because of single-issue hang-ups. At the invitation of Utah State University professor Philip Barlow, Jensen held a "Q&A" with a Mormon Studies student group on November 11, 2011. Church historian Marlin Jensen actually used the term apostasy in 2012 when describing members leaving the Church: Church historian, Elder Marlin Jensen held a Q&A session at Utah State University on January 18, 2012. Elder Marlin Jensen will be released as Church Historian in an upcoming General Conference. alcohol, extramarital sex)', 'I was offended by someone in the church', 'Lack of, meaningful friendships within the church.' , membership Language English headline `` Elder Marlin Jensen called this the greatest period of apostasy since Kirtland authority. 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