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This week in Mormon Land: Beyond truth, beyond Scouting and that whole name debate

The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Joseph Smith's
(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Joseph Smith's "First Vision."

Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, had one burning issue for deity in 1820: which church of all the Christian sects at the time was true?