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

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 6-9

by Kent Larsen • January 25, 2021 • 3 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 4: 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 • 4 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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Come Follow Me Currculum, Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

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

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 2: 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 1: 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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Come Follow Me Currculum, Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C —Joseph Smith History 1

by Kent Larsen • January 4, 2021 • 6 Comments

In the second lesson for this year, the Come Follow Me curriculum turns to Joseph Smith-History in order to include a brief look (over two lessons) at the origins of the restoration. For most Church members, the story is very…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“By mine own voice or by the voice of my servants”

by Chad Nielsen • December 29, 2020 • 12 Comments

Doctrine and Covenants section 1 is a fascinating document.  Written in late 1831, it would chronologically fall in place right around section 67, but was intended as a preface for the compilation of Joseph Smith’s revelations known as the Book…

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

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C Section 1

by Kent Larsen • December 28, 2020 • 2 Comments

The first section of the Doctrine and Covenants is meant to be its preface; an outline of both its reason for existing and its purpose. Presented at a conference of the Church in November, 1831, Section 1 was given and…

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

New Series: Literary Come Follow Me D&C

by Kent Larsen • December 27, 2020 • 5 Comments

I’m launching a new series of posts with poetry to go with the 2021 Come Follow Me lessons for the Doctrine and Covenants

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Church History, General Conference, General Doctrine

The Most Significant General Conference Addresses of the 2010s: A Tentative List

by Chad Nielsen • December 23, 2020 • 7 Comments

With the 2010s a year behind us now, I thought it might be a good time to look back at general conference in the 2010s and consider which of the talks were some of the most significant addresses given during…

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december

A Christmas wish

by Jonathan Green • December 16, 2020 • 12 Comments

If your parents or grandparents die of Covid-19, please make sure the disease appears as the cause of death in their obituaries.

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Music and Poetry

A Christmas Hymn Wishlist

by Chad Nielsen • December 13, 2020 • 23 Comments

I’m always curious to hear what people think about music in the Church, particularly in recent years with the forthcoming new hymnbook.  Usually this time of year is insanely busy for me—with the bell choirs that I’ve been a part…

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Bloggernacle+, Mormon Life, Mormon Thought

Radical Orthodoxy

by Jonathan Green • December 10, 2020 • 33 Comments

I swore off writing manifestos 20 years ago as bad business with no profit in it. Why would I sign this one?

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News and Politics, Science

What do people look up about the Church on Wikipedia?

by Nathaniel Givens • December 8, 2020 • 9 Comments

The following is Stephen Cranny’s second guest post here at Times & Seasons. Stephen Cranney is a Washington DC-based data scientist and Non-Resident Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. He has produced over 20 peer-reviewed articles and five…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

What are the best resources to accompany your study of the Doctrine and Covenants?

by Chad Nielsen • December 6, 2020 • 4 Comments

We’re wrapping up the end of a year studying the Book of Mormon (whether at home or with our wards or branches) and soon will be turning our focus to the Doctrine and Covenants.  J. Stapley at BCC recently ran…

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News and Politics

Let Your Light So Shine

by Rosalynde Welch • December 2, 2020 • 11 Comments

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are…

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Book of Mormon, Mormon Studies, Mormon Thought

Use of the gold plates in Book of Mormon translation accounts

by Jonathan Green • November 30, 2020 • 11 Comments

It’s become something of a communis opinio doctorum that Joseph Smith didn’t make use of the gold plates while translating the Book of Mormon.

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News and Politics

America, election and the International Church

by Walter van Beek • November 28, 2020 • 25 Comments

Over a month ago, I was asked by the Salt Lake Tribune what a reelection of Donald Trump would imply for the International Church. The reasoning of the journalist was that Trump’s performance as President of the United States, especially…

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10 Questions, Mormon Studies, Scriptures

Kent P. Jackson on the Joseph Smith Translation

by Chad Nielsen • November 27, 2020 • 2 Comments

Joseph Smith’s translation projects have been a hot topic this year.  Among many others, earlier this fall we did two posts that discussed the possibility that Joseph Smith relied on the Adam Clarke commentaries for some of the changes he…

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Book of Mormon, General Doctrine, Scriptures

Pondering on Isaiah and the Abrahamic Covenant

by Chad Nielsen • November 24, 2020 • 7 Comments

For the past few years, I’ve tried to take some time each year to focus in on a specific subject related to the section of scriptures covered in Sunday School.  Last year, for example, I tried to scratch the surface…

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Book of Mormon, Mormon Studies, Mormon Thought

Concealment and divine prohibition in Book of Mormon translation accounts

by Jonathan Green • November 23, 2020 • 5 Comments

A common motif in accounts of the translation of the Book of Mormon is how others beside Joseph Smith were forbidden, prevented, or to the contrary permitted to view the gold plates, the interpreters or the translation process.

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Book of Mormon, Mormon Thought

A Soft Closing for the End of the World

by Mary Grey • November 22, 2020 • 9 Comments

Let it be said first off that I am a last days cynic. It’s not that I think many current ideas of apocalypticism are weird (I mean, I don’t just think they’re weird). I just really hate them. This is…

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