With the LDS Curriculum for Priesthood and Relief Society, it seems as good a time as any to have an online discussion on Richard Bushman’s book Rough Stone Rolling and Joseph Smith in general. Ellsworth and I will be posting a bunch of our thoughts on various aspects of Joseph Smith’s character and our reactions to the book.

This being a blog, we’re going to chop it up into blog- and bite-sized bits, with posts on revelation, translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph’s family, and so on. We’ll try to keep the discussion on each of these themes continuing on the comment threads, while other aspects of the book we’ll put in new posts. Let’s confine the discussion on each topic to that particular comment thread. Our co-bloggers are welcome to join us in as well.

All right, let’s let get this rough stone rolling…