When you have questions about your faith, start with FAIR.
Hard questions deserve thoughtful answers. FAIR brings together faithful scholarship, historical context, and reliable resources to help you better understand questions about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
What brought you to FAIR today?
You don’t need to know where to look. Choose the situation that sounds most like yours.
I have a question about my faith
Something I’ve heard, read, or encountered has left me wondering. I want to understand it better.
Someone I love is struggling
Someone I care about is questioning their faith or stepping away from the Church. I want to understand their concerns and know how to help without making things worse.
I encountered a claim or criticism
I’ve encountered a criticism of the Church and want to understand the evidence, historical context, and faithful responses.
I want to learn more
I’m not necessarily facing a faith crisis. I enjoy learning and want to explore Latter-day Saint history, scripture, doctrine, and scholarship more deeply.
Questions don't have to be frightening.
Latter-day Saint history and belief are complex. Sometimes a troubling claim has important context that was left out. Sometimes the history really is complicated.
FAIR doesn’t believe faith requires avoiding difficult questions. We believe good information, careful scholarship, historical context, and faithful perspectives belong in the same conversation.
You don't have to choose between asking hard questions and having faith.
What would you like to understand better?
Start with a topic and explore FAIR’s resources, research, and faithful perspectives.
Joseph Smith
First Vision, plural marriage, translation, treasure seeking, character, and prophetic calling
Book of Mormon
Translation, witnesses, historicity, archaeology, DNA, anachronisms, and authorship
Church History
Historical controversies, pioneers, documents, difficult episodes, and changing practices
Prophets & Revelation
Prophetic fallibility, revelation, Church leadership, difficult statements, and change
Temples & Worship
The endowment, Freemasonry, garments, ordinances, symbolism, and temple history
Race & Priesthood
Black Latter-day Saint history, the priesthood restriction, historical explanations, and the 1978 revelation
Women & the Church
Women’s participation and authority, priesthood, Heavenly Mother, marriage, and historical questions
Scripture & Doctrine
The Bible, Book of Abraham, Restoration scripture, doctrine, theology, and Latter-day Saint beliefs
How FAIR helps
Difficult questions are easier to understand when we slow down, examine the sources, and put information in context.
FAIR provides faithful, evidence-based resources for questions about the history, doctrine, scriptures, practices, and truth claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Understand the claim
We look beyond headlines, clips, and sound bites to identify what is actually being claimed and what the relevant sources say.
Add Context
Historical events, quotations, scripture, and Church teachings make more sense when they’re understood in their full context.
Faithful perspectives
FAIR brings together scholarship and faithful Latter-day Saint perspectives without pretending difficult questions don’t exist.
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Search FAIR’s library of articles, research, conference presentations, podcasts, videos, and answers to questions from Latter-day Saints around the world.
Can't find the answer you need?
Sometimes a question doesn’t fit neatly into a search box. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, send your question to FAIR. We’ll help point you toward relevant resources and faithful perspectives.
Questions submitted to FAIR are answered by real people.
Hard questions deserve thoughtful answers.
Faithful Answers. Informed Response.
