Christopher J. Blythe

Christopher James Blythe is a faculty research associate at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Between 2015 and 2018, he was a documentary editor for the Joseph Smith Papers. He currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Mormon History. His book Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse will be published in summer 2020 from Oxford University Press.

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Vaughn J. Featherstone’s
Atlanta Temple Letter

by Christopher J. Blythe | undefined 37 | 06-12-2020

[Page 309]Abstract: In this essay, I examine a letter written by Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone in 1983 and deposited in the cornerstone of the Atlanta Georgia Temple. The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus […]

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