Product Description
Author: Janice Johnson/Jennifer Reeder
Latter-day Saint women actively participated in the Restoration, and their voices and testimonies need to be included in Church history. The Witness of Women helps accomplish that. Teachers, parents, gospel scholars, and every member seeking a connection with the women of our past will relish discovering the vital role that women played in the Restoration.
Through short, first-person experiences and testimonies helpfully organized by topic, readers will now be ale to learn directly from women who witnessed and participated in the Restoration. As you read their words, you'll be able to:
- Draw on their witness of the Book of Mormon and experiences with the Prophet Joseph Smith to strengthen your own conviction.
- Learn to handle adversity by seeing how they coped with severe trials.
- Gain greater understanding from their insights about Jesus Christ, revelation, priesthood, the temple, education, and other timeless topics.
- Share women's experiences and testimonies in lessons, talks, and at home.
We know that women were there every step of the way from Palmyra to the Salt Lake Valley and beyond. now you can come to personally know those women through their own inspiring words.
About the Authors:
Janiece Johnson is a transplanted Bay Area, California, native who loves history, design, art, good food, and traveling. She has master's degrees in American religious history and theology from Brigham Young University and Vanderbilt's Divinity School, respectively. After working as a historian in the LDS Church History Department for several years, she returned to school to complete doctoral work at the University of Leicester in England. Janiece has published work in women's and religious history—specializing in Mormon history and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. She is the general editor of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Legal Papers (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017). she is currently a visiting professor in religious education at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Jennifer Reeder is a nineteenth-century women's history specialist in the LDS Church History Department. She has a PhD in American history from George Mason University and an MA in history, documentary editing, and archival management from New York University, with a BA in humanities and English teaching from BYU. She is originally from Provo, Utah, and served a mission to Catania, Italy. Check out another book coedited by Reeder with Kate Holbrook: At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women (Church Historian's Press, 2017).
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