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Church Growth · By the Numbers Charting the Church’s growth across 195 years From six founding members in 1830 to nearly 17.9 million today: members, temples, stakes, congregations and missionaries, year by year. gatheredin.one · Updated November 2026 · Figures as of December 31, 2025 unless noted Note: These charts are an interim version. They […]
A Tenth of All Their Interest: Designing a Zion Economy That Actually Works What would it take to build a community with “no poor among them” without compulsion, without crushing the families who join it, and without draining the very wealth that is supposed to lift the poor? By Lance Weaver · Gathered in One […]
A Call to the Mountains On the Protection of Zion A refuge from the storm, a standard for the nations, and the duty of a free people to prepare ✦ The State of Deseret and the protected heart of the Rocky Mountains: Zion’s Boundaries, the high country bounded by the Sierra Nevada and Cascades on […]
Introduction In this essay we comb through the information available in The Law of One (Ra Material) and Oahspe texts to compare and contrast the Service-to-self and Service-to-others paths (abriviated as sts & sto). This comparison is meant to help us to judge if a church or organization such as the Catholic/Protestant/LDS/Islamic systems might actually […]
Lets explore the two possible timelines of the Mellenium being in our dimension, before or after the earth passes away. . #1 Gog/Magog > Apocalyptic end-times war & earth passes away by fire > Millennium#2 Gog/Magog > Millennium for righteous in other realm > Apocalyptic 2nd Gog/Magog end-times war & earth passes away by fire […]
When Brigham Young and architect Truman O. Angell laid out the blueprints for the Salt Lake Temple in the mid-19th century, they were not merely designing a house of worship; they were engaged in a radical act of bilical architectural and theological translation. Central to Latter-day Saint (LDS) theology is the doctrine of Restoration—the belief […]
The Category Error of the Skeptic: Why Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham Is a Masterclass in Ancient Syncretism If you’ve ever spent time reading skeptical critiques of Latter-day Saint scripture, you know the routine. A critic holds up Facsimile 1 or Facsimile 2 from the Book of Abraham, points to a modern Egyptological textbook, and […]
Reclaiming the Principles of Common Consent, Parliamentary Tradition, and Local Governance Welcome to the Assembly Welcome to the foundational guide, legislative blueprint, and community hub for our upcoming civic reenactment. In an era increasingly defined by political gridlock, institutional centralized overreach, and a growing disconnect between the citizenry and the corridors of power, this exercise […]
The use of urns as a funerary element in Loma del Tecomate, Chametla, Sinaloa Gerardo Valenzuela Jiménez, Víctor Joel Santos Ramírez The First Archaeological Surveys in Chametla: The town of Chametla, meaning “place where chia is ground or prepared,” is located in the southern region of the state of Sinaloa, 36 km from the municipal […]
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