Greg Kofford Books

11/13/2025

Watch the Latter Day History Lecture tonight for FREE:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_43C88fiHSG6RyprFMm8zwg #/registration

November 13, 2025, 7:00 PM Mountain, via Zoom.

11/13/2025

The perfect Christmas gift!

"A worthwhile read. Her abundant abilities, generosity, humor, creativity, energy, curiosity, friendliness, spirituality, and sense of adventure become evident throughout this engaging narrative. For readers interested in cultural LDS church history, mid-century until now, Bushman’s book offers written first-hand experiences from within the milieu of the times, in and out of the Church. She gives her audience an intimate look into a rich life of juggling marriage and family life, scholarly endeavors, travel adventures, celebrations, advocacy for women, and personal challenges. . . . Five stars! Highly recommended." — Catherine C. Peterson, Association for Mormon Letters

by Claudia Lauper Bushman “With admirable honesty and keen self-reflection, this triumphant memoir expounds on her life as an intelligent, talented woman driven to find her own place in patriarchal religious and secular worlds.” — Lori LeVar Pierce “This lively and remarkably generous book h...

11/12/2025

Craig Smith will be at Benchmark Books tonight, November 12, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., to talk about his new book, "The Juvenile Instructor Office."

He will speak at 6:00 p.m., and answer questions and sign books before and after that time.

Benchmark is located at 3269 S Main St, Ste 250, South Salt Lake, Utah.

Can't make it tonight? Order a copy from Benchmark (801-486-3111) or from our website: https://gregkofford.com/products/the-juvenile-instructor-office.

11/12/2025

Now available!

“The Juvenile Instructor was established in 1866 as a new journal for younger members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its founder, George Q. Cannon, oversaw the growth of the Juvenile Instructor Office into the primary unofficial printing arm of the Church in the nineteenth century. Author Craig Smith rightly credits much of the organization’s growth and success to the efforts of Cannon’s nephew George C. Lambert and his son Abraham H. Cannon, who handled the management of the Juvenile Instructor Office as it became a major publisher of ‘home literature’ in the 1870s and 1880s. Smith successfully charts the inner history of what would become the Deseret Book Company from its earliest years into the first decades of the twentieth century. This work is a major accomplishment culminating from Smith’s decades of book collecting and study of the Juvenile Instructor Office, and its accompanying bibliography will be a valuable aid to collectors and students of early Church printing in Utah.” — Gregory Seppi, Curator, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

Order today: https://gregkofford.com/products/the-juvenile-instructor-office

Preview: https://gregkofford.com/blogs/news/preview-the-juvenile-instructor-office

11/11/2025

“'Imagining and Reimagining the Restoration' is a necessary contribution to the contemporary Mormon discussion and will be read with interest by many both in and out of the Church. I believe that it will, as hoped by Rees, inspire many to take a more imaginative position towards the restoration. Rees’s wisdom and quietly powerful exploration of discipleship stands as something to aspire to as well as a call to recognize the possibilities within ourselves and all members of the Church to envision a more just and Christlike restoration. It is acts of imagination like these that will be necessary in order for the ongoing restoration to help the Church grow into its full potential to bring to pass the establishment of Zion.” — Ryan Ward for the Association of Mormon Letters

(Order a copy: https://gregkofford.com/products/imagining-and-reimagining-the-restoration)

https://www.associationmormonletters.org/reviews/current-reviews/rees-imagining-and-reimagining-the-restoration-reviewed-by-ryan-ward/

Review Title: Imagining and Reimagining the Restoration Author: Robert A. Rees Publisher: Greg...

11/11/2025

Just Released: The Juvenile Instructor Office [Kofford Newsletter] - https://mailchi.mp/koffordbooks/just-released-the-juvenile-instructor-office

11/10/2025

In an interview with Kurt Manwaring at the From the Desk blog, scholar Charles Harrell traces the development of the Holy Ghost in Latter-day Saint theology.

https://www.fromthedesk.org/holy-ghost-development-latter-day-saint-doctrine/

(Check out Charles' book, "This Is My Doctrine," where he explores the topic in more detail: https://gregkofford.com/products/this-is-my-doctrine)

See the fascinating history of how the Latter-day Saint Holy Ghost developed from an impersonal power to a distinct spirit personage.

11/07/2025

The Church has just called the first French member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Gérald Caussé, the former Presiding Bishop.

(Be sure to check out our collection of books on the International Church: https://gregkofford.com/collections/history/international)

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/gerald-causse-called-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles

Elder Gérald Caussé is the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

11/06/2025

In an essay at AddFaith.org, Brian Muhanji Masheti explores the "Top 10 Abandoned Temple Practices in Latter-day Saint History."

https://addfaith.org/blog/faith/belief/keystonelds/top-10-abandoned-temple-practices-in-latter-day-saint-history/

(Be sure to also check out our history of the Nauvoo Temple: https://gregkofford.com/products/a-house-for-the-most-high)

Explore ten abandoned LDS temple practices from children’s baptisms to temple healings—and how revelation shaped modern temple worship.

11/05/2025

"Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology" is published periodically by Greg Kofford Books.

The latest edition (Volume 10, Issue 2) is now online and is available to download for free.

https://gregkofford.com/products/element-10-2