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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“It is expedient that the church meet together often to partake of bread and wine”

by Chad Nielsen • March 4, 2021 • 13 Comments

If the Book of Moroni is an instruction manual to “build a church,” as Michael Austin suggests, with the “nuts-and-bolts how-to-run-a-church stuff that anybody trying to reassemble what the Nephites built will need to know,”[1] then Doctrine and Covenants Section…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 20-22

by Kent Larsen • March 1, 2021 • 0 Comments

Administrative acts don’t always get the same attention that ordinances and more dramatic events. And in comparison to the First Vision, the Martyrdom and a number of other events, the organization of the Church doesn’t get as much attention. This…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“It is not written, that there shall be no end to this torment”

by Chad Nielsen • February 27, 2021 • 8 Comments

Years ago, I attended a testimony meeting that began with a counselor in the bishopric talking about how grateful he was to be a part of a religion where believed that God was full of grace and would save almost…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 18-19

by Kent Larsen • February 23, 2021 • 0 Comments

The sections of the D&C covered in this week’s Come Follow Me lesson are apparently about the calling of the twelve apostles and paying for the Book of Mormon. But they also include themes that don’t directly bear on these…

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Book of Mormon, Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“You shall obtain a view of them”

by Chad Nielsen • February 21, 2021 • 6 Comments

What were the three witnesses promised and what did they claim to experience?  The basics of answering this question seems obvious—they saw the gold plates and other artifacts related to them.  What is less apparent is how the Three Witnesses…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.4: Orson Hyde on repentance

by Jonathan Green • February 21, 2021 • 1 Comment

Most of this article is not actually about repentance.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 14-17

by Kent Larsen • February 15, 2021 • 0 Comments

This week’s Come Follow Me lesson includes several similar sections of the Doctrine and Covenants: three revelations to David Whitmer, John Whitmer and Peter Whitmer, Jr., who have asked the Lord where they should focus their efforts. The fourth section…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.3: Orson Hyde on faith

by Jonathan Green • February 14, 2021 • 0 Comments

Orson Hyde’s lecture on faith seems a lot like the Lectures on Faith.

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“The keys of the ministering of angels”

by Chad Nielsen • February 12, 2021 • 30 Comments

One of the persistent questions from Doctrine and Covenants, Section 13 is what is meant by the statement that the Priesthood of Aaron “holds the keys of the ministering of angels.”  Answers from general authorities in recent years have varied,…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 12-13

by Kent Larsen • February 8, 2021 • 0 Comments

The two sections of the D&C for the next Come Follow Me lesson are both quite short, but the second covers one of the most significant events in Church history—the visit of John the Baptist restoring the Aaronic Priesthood and…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.2: Orson Hyde on new scripture

by Jonathan Green • February 7, 2021 • 4 Comments

Everything makes sense until the last sentence.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“I will establish my church”

by Chad Nielsen • February 3, 2021 • 4 Comments

Doctrine and Covenants Section 10 is interesting in its discussion of the Lord’s church because it seems to use the term in two different ways.  One definition is the institution that we’re most likely to think of when we hear…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

Deny not the Spirit of Revelation-a reflection on Come Follow Me

by Mary Grey • February 2, 2021 • 1 Comment

The story of the First Vision is one of the most beloved in all the Gospel, and many of us have sat through multitudes of lessons on what truths this vision taught, one of which being that the creeds of…

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General Doctrine

At Home with Nothing to do? Try a Zion Project

by Mary Grey • January 31, 2021 • 11 Comments

I am currently serving as the RS president in our ward. Basically I have spent the last almost year pining and waiting for things to get back to normal, but lately I have been thinking that maybe that is not…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 10-11

by Kent Larsen • January 31, 2021 • 0 Comments

The two sections in this week’s Come Follow Me lesson seem very different. The first, section 10, concerns the aftermath of the loss of the 116 manuscript pages containing the initial translation of the Book of Mormon. In contrast, section…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.1: Orson Hyde on the Godhead

by Jonathan Green • January 30, 2021 • 2 Comments

Orson Hyde’s explication of doctrine, like the Articles of Faith, begins with the nature of God, although Hyde’s treatment is about 30 times as long.

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“You have another gift”

by Chad Nielsen • January 27, 2021 • 15 Comments

In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom[1] rests on the shoulders of a young man.  His name … Joseph. If you couldn’t tell from the text above, my wife and I…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 6-9

by Kent Larsen • January 25, 2021 • 6 Comments

The central character in this week’s D&C sections is Oliver Cowdery, the primary scribe and assistant to Joseph Smith in the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. In our mythology1, we frequently recount the story, told in two…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 3: Orson Hyde on priesthood

by Jonathan Green • January 24, 2021 • 4 Comments

The subject of the priesthood office has by itself already caused more contention, bitterness and jealousy between the Catholic and the Protestant church than all remaining matters of dispute combined.

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General Doctrine, Mormon Life, Scriptures

“Let God Prevail”

by Rosalynde Welch • January 22, 2021 • 7 Comments

I share here a sacrament meeting talk I delivered recently in my St Louis congregation. I suspect there have been many other such sermons on the same topic delivered in wards around the globe over the past three months. President…

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10 Questions, Mormon Thought

Louis Midgley on Hugh Nibley, the Maori, and More

by Chad Nielsen • January 21, 2021 • 6 Comments

In an interview ranging from discussing Hugh Nibley to missionary work in New Zealand to systematic theologies to the dedication of the Swiss Temple, Kurt Manwaring recently sat down with Latter-day Saint apologist (and retired professor of political science) Louis…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“A man may have many revelations”

by Chad Nielsen • January 19, 2021 • 1 Comment

We’re four weeks into the year, and we’ve finally reached the beginning of the Doctrine and Covenants.  I know we started the book weeks ago, but what I mean to say is that this week we’re now working with the…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 3-5

by Kent Larsen • January 18, 2021 • 3 Comments

In the three sections covered in this week’s Come Follow Me lesson we go with Martin Harris from the 116 pages to being a witness, with a detour to Joseph Smith Sr. and what it means to serve God. While…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste: translating the name of the church in 1842

by Jonathan Green • January 16, 2021 • 2 Comments

The translator thought about it and…just gave up.

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“A messenger sent from the presence of God”

by Chad Nielsen • January 12, 2021 • 4 Comments

I’ve always been interested in knowing what all Moroni said to Joseph Smith during their first conversation.  We have several accounts, both from Joseph Smith himself and from close associates like Oliver Cowdery, Orson Pratt, and Lucy Mack Smith of…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 2

by Kent Larsen • January 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

This coming week’s Come Follow Me lesson discusses the events surrounding the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, including the visits of Moroni to Joseph Smith and the scripture’s translation and publication. Like other early events in the restoration,…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Mormon language

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste: Foreword

by Jonathan Green • January 9, 2021 • 6 Comments

The fierce desire harbored by the author of this booklet to fulfill an obligation that, he feels, a more than human power has imposed on him, as well as the heartfelt diligence with which  he hopes to gladden his fellow…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Mormon language

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste: title page

by Jonathan Green • January 8, 2021 • 2 Comments

The first non-English Latter-day Saint work, Orson Hyde’s Ein Ruf aus der Wüste, was published in 1842 in Frankfurt. The section recounting the life of Joseph Smith and the translation of the Book of Mormon has been translated multiple times…

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10 Questions, Church History

Keith Erekson and the Scholars of Pajamalot

by Chad Nielsen • January 6, 2021 • 0 Comments

In a recent interview with Keith Erekson (the director of the Church History Library and a member of the editorial board of the Church Historian’s Press), Kurt Manwaring discussed a variety of topics, including the forthcoming publication of the William…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“Or, are they all wrong together?”

by Chad Nielsen • January 5, 2021 • 6 Comments

In this week’s chapter in the Come, Follow Me manual, one of the core areas of discussion is “why are there various accounts of the First Vision?”  It’s an opportunity to explore the other accounts of the First Vision in…

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