Category: Features

  • Sunday Morning in a Nutshell

    Dave Banack and Marc Bohn

    President Monson conducted the Sunday morning session, featuring talks by President Eyring, Elder Perry,  Elder Burton, Sister Dibb, Elder Nelson, and President Monson. Direct quotations (based on our notes) are given in quotes; phrases without quotes are our summary of the remarks given.

  • Priesthood Session in a Nutshell

    Marc Bohn

    President Uchtdorf conducted the Priesthood session, featuring talks by Elder Ballard, Elder Gonzalez, Elder Choi, Elder Uchtdorf, Elder Eyring and President Monson. Direct quotations (based on my notes) are given in quotes; phrases without quotes are my summary of the remarks given.

  • Saturday Afternoon in a Nutshell

    Dave Banack

    President Eyring conducted the Saturday afternoon session, featuring talks by Elder Oaks, Elder Hales, Elder Zeballos, Elder Callister, Elder Watson, Elder Anderson, and President Packer. Direct quotations (based on my notes) are given in quotes; phrases without quotes are my summary of the remarks given.

  • Saturday Morning in a Nutshell

    Dave Banack

    President Eyring conducted the Saturday morning session, which featured brief remarks from President Monson and talks from Elder Scott, Sister Matsumori, Elder Clayton, Brother Osguthorpe, Elder Bednar, and President Uchtdorf. Direct quotations (based on my notes) are given in quotes; phrases without quotes are my summary of the remarks.

  • Royal Skousen’s 12 questions — The Critical Text Version

    Frank McIntyre

    Last month we posted Royal Skousen’s discussion of his work on recovering the earliest version of the Book of Mormon, along with some updates.  Unfortunately, that post garnered some annoying formatting problems — mostly due to the new format T&S adopted this year.  We’re happy to now present to you mark III of Royal Skousen’s…

  • Divine Comedy, Divine Tragedy

    Ben Huff

    The Bible, as we have received it, sets out the drama of salvation with its wrenching fall and crucifixion, but joyous resurrection and exaltation. Though its compilation is in many ways ad hoc, there is a satisfyingly comedic structure to the whole. As Terryl Givens puts it in his The Book of Mormon: A Very…

  • Some Notes on the New Spanish LDS Bible

    Kent Larsen

    My copy of the new LDS edition of the Bible in Spanish arrived yesterday, one of the 750,000 copies printed recently (according to a contact I have in the Church department that prints these materials). So I thought I would pass on my impressions.

  • The awesomest youth object lesson ever

    Kaimi Wenger

    Want to really knock the socks off of your youth with a fun and very different object lesson? Then try out miracle berries.

  • 12 Questions and a Book by Royal Skousen

    Frank McIntyre

    5 years ago we published one of my favorite “12 Questions” posts, in which Royal Skousen discussed in some depth what he has learned from his extensive work on the earliest editions of the Book of Mormon.  His book, The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, is being published in September by Yale University Press…

  • Notes From All Over For Week Ended August 2

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • Notes From All Over For Week Ended July 25

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • Some Thoughts on How to Approach a New “Place”

    Jayme Blakesley

    I reside in Alexandria, Virginia, about 10 miles south of Washington, DC. 

  • Times & Seasons Welcomes Jayme Blakesley

    Marc Bohn

    Times & Seasons is pleased to welcome our newest guest blogger, Jayme Blakesley.

  • Marriage and gender roles

    Rebecca Smylie

    I suppose we have Mark Sanford to thank for the recent frenzy of articles about marriage (or was it Jon and Kate?). There’s Caitlin Flanagan’s piece in Time, Aaron Traister at Salon.com, the Women’s Day/AOL living survey, Amanda Fortini wondering “why would anyone submit to the doomed delusion that is marriage?” No surprise then that…

  • Notes From All Over For Week Ended July 18

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • The Question of Pacifism

    James Olsen

    I’m not, by nature, a pacifist.

  • Divide? Maybe not so much — Part 2

    Bridget Jack Meyers

    (See my disclaimer in Part 1 concerning the title) So, let’s discuss some of the less-acknowledged ways Mormons and evangelicals are alike. First we’ll start with things in evangelical thought which bear an unexpected resemblance to LDS thought.

  • Favorite Lessons from my Favorite (reformed) Harlot

    Rebecca Smylie

    Incidentally, Jewish tradition lists Rahab the Harlot (of Joshua 2) as one of the four most beautiful women in the Bible. That’s only one of the reasons I like her.

  • Notes From All Over For Week Ended July 11

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • Worshipping a dead law

    Rebecca Smylie

    A couple of years ago I got really interested in the Law of Moses. It’s hard to read the scriptures and miss it—particularly the Book of Mormon or the Bible. I can’t help but feel like it was the issue of the day. The thing that, for one reason or another, many members of the…

  • Grassroots-Style Dispensations

    James Olsen

    Are Mormons exclusivists or universalists?

  • Faith’s Fear Factor

    Rebecca Smylie

    I recently had a co-worker ask me how many wives my husband had. “Just one,” I answered. Red-faced, I hurried to explain that Mormons don’t practice polygamy. By the end of our conversation, he looked unconvinced and I felt uncomfortable because I belong to a church outside the mainstream. The innocuous encounter gave rise to one…

  • Times & Seasons Welcomes Rebecca McConkie Smylie

    Marc Bohn

    Times & Seasons is pleased to welcome our newest guest blogger, Ms. Rebecca McConkie Smylie.

  • Notes From All Over For Week Ended July 4

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • Divide? Maybe not so much — Part 1

    Bridget Jack Meyers

    (See my disclaimer about the title) There are many similarities between Mormonism and evangelical Christianity which are generally uncontested by both parties. I thought I would cover these prior to doing a post on the similarities which I suspect will be more controversial.

  • What death can teach us about heaven and hell

    Bridget Jack Meyers

    People are always making assertions about what heaven must contain in order for it to qualify as heaven for them, some of these assertions being more jokes than anything else. “It’s not heaven without sex.” “It wouldn’t be heaven if [insert name of favorite pet dog] isn’t there.” “If heaven doesn’t have Egg McMuffins, I…

  • Why We’re Confused

    Bridget Jack Meyers

    An old adage among outsiders who study Mormonism states that determining what is and is not Mormon doctrine is a lot like trying to nail jello to a wall—except that the latter feat is entirely possible while the former remains a struggle to this day. Evangelicals who interact with Mormons often express frustration to that…

  • Notes From All Over – through June 27

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.

  • How Wide the Divide . . . and can we ever Bridget?

    Kaimi Wenger

    We’re pleased to welcome Bridget Jack Meyers as a guest blogger.

  • Notes From All Over – through June 20

    Kent Larsen

    Comment here on the Notes From All Over for the past week.