Janiece: How Becoming a Historian Helped Me Cope With Difficult Church History

As a professional historian, Janiece describes the intertwining of her love of the Restored Gospel and her love for history. The challenge of her academic work on the Mountain Meadows Massacre helped her gain perspective and compassion. She shares her hard-won wisdom about how to engage with even the most complex aspects of Church history with both an academic and a faithful perspective.

Further Reading in Faith is Not Blind:

“Ambiguities, apparent contradictions, and paradoxes are all around us. . . :earning to accept those apparent conflicts long enough to work through them is an essential step in finding the simplicity that lies beyond complexity”

(Faith Is Not Blind, Chapter 5, “Productive Ambiguity,” p. 39)