Lesson 24: 2 Samuel 11-12; Psalm 51
Category: Features
Sunday School lessons – Book Reviews – Interviews
Lots of Questions for Greg Whiteley
“Probably the only people who are more lonely in an LDS ward than musicians who used to be almost-famous are filmmakers who never were”–Greg Whiteley, director of New York Doll.
Sunday School Lesson #23
Lesson 23: 1 Samuel 18-20, 23-24
Sunday School Lesson #22
Lesson 22: 1 Samuel 9-11, 13, 15-17
Sunday School Lesson #21
Lesson 21: 1 Samuel 2-3, 8
Sunday School Lesson #20
Lesson 20: Ruth; 1 Samuel 1
Sunday School Lesson #19
Lesson 19: Judges 2; 4; 6-7; 13-16
Sunday School Lesson #18
Lesson 18: Joshua 1-6, 23-24
Sunday School Lesson #17
Lesson 17: Deuteronomy 6; 8; 11; 32: 1-4, 15-18, 30-40, 45-47
An Interview with Valerie Hudson
BYU Political Science professor Valerie Hudson has been in the news lately as a result of her new book, Bare Branches.
Sunday School Lesson #16
Lesson 16: Numbers 22-24; 31:1-16*
Sunday School Lesson #15
Lesson 15: Numbers 11-14; 21:1-9
Book Review: Celebrating Passover: A Guide to Understanding the Jewish Feast for Latter-day Saints
Easter celebrations and the lack thereof have been a hot topic recently; if you want to add something to your celebration of this season, I highly recommend this book.
An Easter Activity for Family Home Evening
I can’t take credit for this idea–these are sometimes called Resurrection Eggs and they’ve been around for a few years.
JEF Sunday School Lesson #14
Lesson 14: Exodus 15-20, 32-34
JEF Sunday School Lesson 13
Lesson 13: Exodus 1-3, 5-6, 11-14 Before looking in detail at the scriptures for this week, consider these parallels between the story of Moses’s life and the story of Israel’s experience:
JEF Sunday School Lesson #12
Lesson 12: Genesis 40-45
An Interview with Jared Ludlow
Jared Ludlow has been at BYU-Hawaii since 2000 and is an assistant professor in the History and Religion Departments. He earned his PhD in a joint program in Near Eastern Religions from the University of California-Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of Abraham Meets Death: Narrative Humor in the Testament of Abraham.
JEF Sunday School Lesson 11
Lesson 11: Genesis 34 and 37-39
JMS Sunday School Lesson #10
Book Review: Stand As a Witness: The Biography of Ardeth Greene Kapp
We begin with a quiz: How many book-length biographies of LDS women can you name? . . .
JEF Sunday School Lesson 10
Lesson 10: Genesis 24-29
Book Review: The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt
In the 1990s, Carol Nielson inherited a quilt. Or, to be more precise, half a quilt. . .
JMS Sunday School Lesson #9
JEF Sunday School Lesson 9
Lesson 9: Abraham 1; Genesis 15-17, 21-22
JMS Sunday School Lesson #8
JEF Sunday School Lesson #8
Lesson 8: Genesis 13-14, 18-19
Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
I have a friend –I know her through the homeschooling community–with an interest in the Church. She told me that one of the books that she read about the church was Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Now, she’s not stupid–she didn’t expect it to be unbiased–but she did want to know my reaction to it. So I read it and then sent her this email:
JMS Sunday School Lesson #7
I plan on focusing my lesson on this question: Was Abraham really a historical person or would we do better to understand him as a metaphor for the human condition?
Hermeneutics
That’s a 25 cent word if there ever was one, something for college kids to show Mom and Dad to prove they got something for their money, something a grad student to lord it over others with in the commons.