Take heart, Mormon historians.
There are subtle signs that the LDS Church is helping members embrace new scholarship on the faith's history.
No, the groundbreaking "Gospel Topics" essays, dealing with some of the church's sometimes-thorny past, will not be included in the 2017 Sunday school curriculum on the Doctrine & Covenants, a compilation of what Mormons view as divine revelations given to founder Joseph Smith and other LDS leaders.
Nor will the printed lesson manual, first written in 1999 and revised in 2003, include background narratives known as "Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants."
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