Category: Features

  • Sunday School Lesson 38

    Jim F.

    Lesson 38: Doctrine and Covenants 38:30; 42:30-31, 42; 44:6; 52:40; 56:16-17; 58:26-28; 88:123-125; 104:13-18 I owe an apology to those who have been receiving these by e-mail.

  • Sunday School Lesson 37

    Jim F.

    Lesson 37: Doctrine and Covenants 1:38; 20:21-26; 21:1, 4-6; 43:2; 68:3-4; 101:43-54; 107:22, 91-92

  • Sunday School Lesson 36

    Jim F.

    Lesson 36: Doctrine and Covenants 58:2-4; 64:33-34; 82:10; 93:1; and 130:19-21

  • Book Review: I Love Mormons: A New Way to Share Christ with Latter-day Saints

    Julie M. Smith

    The techniques that Evangelicals use to convert Mormons to ‘traditional Christianity’ do not work. The same cannot be said for the method proposed by David L. Rowe in his new book. .

  • A Letter to Emma Ray

    Julie M. Smith

    While David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism is nearly perfect in every way, one thing it doesn’t do is provide an intimate portrait of President McKay. That lacuna is partially filled by Heart Petals: The Personal Correspondence of David Oman McKay to Emma Ray McKay.

  • Book Review: The Parenting Breakthrough

    Julie M. Smith

    You just gotta love any book that has a picture of a seven-year-old boy cleaning a toilet on the cover.

  • Book Review: The Book: A History of the Bible

    Julie M. Smith

    I should warn potential readers: there’s a real danger that you will drool on the pages of Christopher de Hamel’s new book.

  • Sunday School Lesson 35

    Jim F.

    Lesson 35: Doctrine & Covenants 4:3-7, 18:10-16, 52:40, 81:5-6, 138:58

  • Sunday School Lesson 34

    Jim F.

    Lesson 34: Doctrine and Covenants 136

  • Sunday School Lesson 33

    Jim F.

    Lesson 33: Doctrine and Covenants 107:22-24

  • Sunday School Lesson 32

    Jim F.

    Lesson 32: Doctrine and Covenants 135

  • Sunday School Lesson 31

    Jim F.

    Lesson 31: Doctrine and Covenants 131 & 132:4-33

  • Sunday School Lesson 30

    Jim F.

    Lesson 30: Doctrine and Covenants 2, 124:25-55, 127, 128, Joseph Smith — History 1:36-39

  • Sunday School Lesson 29

    Jim F.

    Lesson 29: Doctrine and Covenants 124: 1-21, 87-90, 97-110; Doctrine and Covenants 126

  • Sunday School Lesson 28

    Jim F.

    Lesson 28: Doctrine and Covenants 121:1-33; 122 Sections 121, 122, and 123 are each part of a letter written by Joseph Smith from Liberty Jail to the church leaders in Quincey, Illinois. Read about that experience in a good Church history.

  • Sunday School Lesson 27

    Jim F.

    Lesson 27: Doctrine and Covenants 101, 103, and 105 For more understanding of these sections, read about Zion’s Camp in a church history.

  • Sunday School Lesson 25

    Jim F.

    Lesson 25: Doctrine and Covenants 84:33-44, 121:34-36

  • Sunday School Lesson 24

    Jim F.

    Lesson 24: Doctrine and Covenants 26, 28, 43:1-7, 50, 52:14-19

  • Sunday School Lesson 23

    Jim F.

    Lesson 23: Doctrine and Covenants 88 Notice that section 87, on war, was given only a few days before this section, “an olive leaf [. . .] plucked from the Tree of Paradise, the Lord’s message of peace.” How is the message of section 88 one of peace to the Saints?

  • Sunday School Lesson 22

    Jim F.

    Lesson 22: Doctrine and Covenants 89 Notice that this is the first revelation given after the School of the Prophets was organized. Is there a connection between that organization and this revelation?

  • Sunday School Lesson 21

    Jim F.

    Doctrine and Covenants 29:9-29; 34:5-12; 45:16-75; 88:86-89; 101:22-34; 133

  • Book Review: David O. McKay: Beloved Prophet

    Julie M. Smith

    I have mixed feelings about the very presence of Woodger’s David O. McKay: Beloved Prophet. On the one hand, as someone who wants to read biographies of all of the prophets of this dispensation, I’m always happy to see a new addition to the fold. While there are other biographies of President McKay, the pickings…

  • Book Review: David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

    Julie M. Smith

    Yes, I’m reviewing two books on David O. McKay. My original intention was to review them together (and explore the larger issue of writing faith-promoting as opposed to warts-and-all history), but I decided that wouldn’t be fair. It didn’t seem fair because David O. McKay: Beloved Prophet is a credible entry in the well-established subgenre…

  • 12(ish) Questions with Senator Robert F. Bennett

    Nate Oman

    A while ago, we announced that Senator Robert F. Bennet (R-Ut) had agreed to do 12 Questions with T&S. Senator Bennett has read all of the posted questions and offers his answers to the questions below.

  • Sunday School Lesson 20

    Jim F.

    Lesson 20: Doctrine and Covenants 76; 131:1-4; 132:19-24; 137 These are longer than usual.

  • Sunday School Lesson 19

    Jim F.

    Lesson 19: Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-19; 76:40-42, 96-112; 88:14-16; 138:55-56

  • Book Review: A Statistical Profile of Mormons: Health, Wealth, and Social Life

    Julie M. Smith

    Anyone and everyone interested in Mormon Studies should read this book.

  • 12 (or so) Questions for Kathleen Flake

    Greg Call

    Back in November, we solicited questions for Kathleen Flake, author of the terrific book The Politics of American Religious Identity (2004). We are now pleased to present her responses. Thanks Professor Flake! 1. How have you negotiated the tension between focusing on Mormon studies versus the broader issues within your discipline? How have your faith…

  • Sunday School Lesson 18

    Jim F.

    Lesson 18: Doctrine and Covenants 95, 109, 110

  • Book Review: Back to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels

    Julie M. Smith

    This statement from The Blog of Happiest Fun got a lot of links from other female bloggernaclites: I would like to spend more time discussing the lives of strong women in the scriptures. Women like Hannah, Deborah, Jael, or Anna the prophetess. There are so many women that I find interesting, and I don’t hear…