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Planted

Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt

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For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people’s ties to religious belief and affiliation. Latter-day Saints have not been immune to this trend. In recent years, many faithful Church members have encountered challenging aspects of Church history, belief, or practice. Feeling isolated, alienated, or misled, some struggle to stay. Some simply leave. Many search for a reliable and faithful place to work through their questions.

You can find such a place in Patrick Q. Mason’s Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt. This book gives people who struggle with questions—and people who love those who struggle—practical ways to stay planted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Rather than attempting to answer every possible question or doubt, Planted presents an empathetic, practical, and candid dialog about the relationship of doubt and faith.

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Patrick Q. Mason

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Patrick Q. Mason is the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (Oxford University Press, 2011), which examined anti-Mormon prejudice against 19th century LDS missionaries. He is a nationally recognized authority on Mormonism with regular appearances in media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, ABC News, National Public Radio, and PBS.
We live in an age of doubt, but we need not be overcome. When we are planted in the Savior, we can be nourished as much by our questions as by the answers.

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  • Table of Contents

    Introduction

    1. Faith and Trust in a Secular Age

    2. Testimonies

    3. Foolishness and Scandal

    4. Unicorns and Rhinoceroses

    5. A Principled Approach to Church History

    6. In All Patience and Faith

    7. Abide in the Vine

    Interlude: A Meditation on “Doubting” Thomas

    8. The Church Is True

    9. When Church Is Hard

    10. Embracing Mormonism

    Postlude: Conversations and Celebrations

    Acknowledgments

    Suggested Reading

  • Publication Information

    Publication Month: June

    Publication Year: 2016

    Language: English

    ISBN 13: 978-1-62972-181-1

    Page Count: 219

    Binding: Paperback, eBook

    Price: $ 15.99

    Imprint: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship