Messenger (magazine)

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Messenger was a Mormon fundamentalist publication, originally printed in Birmingham, England starting in 1991, and was in print until 2006. It went under the original title of "Truth Seeker" magazine,^[1]^[2]^[3] until it was found that there was an existing periodical that shared that name. Although originally printed quarterly, it was printed bi-monthly when it moved to an American-produced edition in 2003.

It was edited by a former bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with a member who worked for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is unique in being the only such Mormon fundamentalist magazine printed outside of the United States of America, and probably the only one edited and authored by active LDS Church members (although subsequently excommunicated for their beliefs).Their involvement in the magazine was possibly one of the factors that led to their excommunication from the LDS Church.^{[citation needed]}

It was perhaps the first Mormon publication on the Web,^{[citation needed]} having first appeared online in 1994.^[4] However, Orson Scott Card's Vigor ezine was available in plain text on Compuserve before this.

This magazine was not, nor did it claim to be, an official publication of the LDS Church.

[edit] See also

List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

[edit] References

^ BBC News: No stopping Mormons' millennium momentum, 19 June, 1998
^ Messenger: About the On-Line Editor, archived at Internet Archive, April 15, 2002
^ Yahoo! Directory: Christian Magazines
^ The earliest archived version is from 1998 - [1]

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