Despite claims that the sky is falling and multiple reproductions of trumpeting Moroni are toppling from various spires, the future of Mormonism is bright. We are on a bridge. The past five years include the LDS Church’s huge step into transparency. The hard historical issues visited by official essays were shocking to some, validating to others, and ignored by most. Still, they have been published and will be integrated into the Church curriculum. That means that the upcoming generation will not (we hope) be blindsided by the issues but informed and even comforted.
