Category: Features

  • An Interview with Neil LaBute

    Rosalynde Welch

    Writer, director and playwright Neil LaBute has been producing provocative and critically-acclaimed theater, film and fiction for more than a decade in the US and abroad.

  • Sunday School Lesson 4

    Jim F.

    Lesson 4: Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65; Doctrine and Covenants 3; 5; 10; 17; 20:5–15; and 84:54–62

  • Invitation: 12 Questions for Terryl Givens

    Jim F.

    Many of you have probably at least heard of Terryl Givens’s book, By the Hand of Mormon.

  • III: 12 Questions for Travis Anderson

    Jim F.

    This is the last installment of Travis Anderson’s answers to our 12 questions.

  • II: 12 Questions for Travis Anderson

    Jim F.

    The second four questions and answers from Professor Anderson:

  • Sunday School Lesson 3

    Jim F.

    Lesson 3: Joseph Smith History 1:1-26

  • Sunday School Lesson 2

    Jim F.

    I am gradually making headway. I hope to finish lesson 3 Sunday and send it out early next week. My apologies for not being further ahead. Lesson 2: Verses from Doctrine and Covenants 18, 19, 58, 76, 88, and 93 – “Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World”

  • I: 12 Questions for Travis Anderson

    Jim F.

    Russell Fox’s post on International Cinema at BYU and the responses to it inspired us to ask Travis Anderson, IC’s director, to do 12 Questions for us. Here is the first installment, answers to four questiosn.

  • Sunday School Lesson 1

    Jim F.

    Lesson 1: Doctrine and Covenants 1

  • Sunday School Lesson 48

    Jim F.

    Lesson 48: Mormon 7-8, 10

  • Sunday School Lesson 47

    Jim F.

    Lesson 47: Moroni 1-6

  • 12 Questions for Travis Anderson

    Jim F.

    Everyone was excited to talk about International Cinema at BYU.

  • Sunday School Lesson 46

    Jim F.

    Lesson 46: Ether 7-15 These notes will concentrate on Ether 12.

  • Sunday School Lesson 45

    Jim F.

    Lesson 45: Ether 1-6 Chapter 1 Though things are complicated by the fact that Mosiah (which one?) withheld the Book of Ether from his people (Ether 4:1), it is plausible to think of the book as being like a Book of Mormon for the people of the Book of Mormon.

  • 12 Questions for Kathleen Flake

    Greg Call

    We are pleased to announce that Kathleen Flake is the next participant in our 12 Questions series.

  • Sunday School Lesson 44

    Jim F.

    Lesson 44: Mormon 7-9

  • Sunday School Lesson 43

    Jim F.

    Lesson 43: Mormon 1-6, Moroni 9 Since I’m putting these together between conferences all over North America, the last lesson and this are not as complete as I would like. My apologies.

  • Sunday School Lesson 42

    Jim F.

    Lesson 42: 3 Nephi 27-30 and 4 Nephi Chapter 27 Verse 6: What does it mean to take Christ’s name upon us? (What sermon in the book of Mormon has the most to say about that?) When we are told to endure to the end, what are we to endure?

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Eighteen

    Julie M. Smith

    BMS: The People of Ammon MBM: Anti-Nephi-Lehies

  • Sunday School Lesson 41

    Jim F.

    Lesson 41: 3 Nephi 22-26 I’ll be out of town for each of the next three weekends, but I will try to keep up on the study materials for Gospel Doctrine class.

  • 12 Answers from Royal Skousen

    Jim F.

    Professor Royal Skousen has gone far beyond what we asked of him and provided a full and fascinating response to our twelve questions.

  • Sunday School Lesson 40

    Jim F.

    Lesson 40: 3 Nephi 16, 20-21 Chapter 16 Verses 8-10, especially 10: Who are the Gentiles? Look at each condition for when these things will happen. What does each mean?

  • Sunday School Lesson 39

    Jim F.

    Lesson 39: 3 Nephi 17-19 Chapter 17 Verses 1-3: Does the Savior think what he has said is easy to understand? Are the things he has taught “plain and simpleâ€?? Why haven’t the Nephites understood him well? In what ways are they weak? What does it mean to ponder something? What does it mean to…

  • 12 Questions for Royal Skousen

    Jim F.

    Royal Skousen, Professor of Linguistics at BYU, is important for at least two reasons. First, he has developed a unique theory of language learning and use based on analogy (see his Analogical Modeling of Language, Analogy and Structure, and Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language). Skousen’s work is important because it gives us a…

  • Sunday School Lesson 38

    Jim F.

    Lesson 38: 3 Nephi 12-15 This will be one of the longer sets of notes. I would apologize for their length, but even at this length I have left a great deal unexplored. Though I will continue to post following lessons, I will spend more than one week on this material in my class. There…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Fourteen

    Julie M. Smith

    MBM: Alma BMS: Alma Teaches and Baptizes

  • Sunday School Lesson 37

    Jim F.

    Lesson 37: 3 Nephi 8-11 Chapter 8 Verses 1-23: Why might there have been so much destruction in this hemisphere at the time of the crucifixion and so little destruction in the other?

  • Sunday School Lesson 36

    Jim F.

    Lesson 36: 3 Nephi 1-7 We will concentrate on chapters 5-7.

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Thirteen

    Julie M. Smith

    (Completely unreleted to everything but I just had to mention: my three-year-old noticed that the skin on the bottom of my foot is peeling and asked, “Mommy, are you molting?”) BMS: Abinadi and King Noah MBM: Abinadi Theme: We should be witnesses of Jesus Christ. Scripture: Mosiah 16:8-9 Resources: (1) Can’t take credit for this…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Twelve

    Julie M. Smith

    (This is last week’s; I’ll have today’s later today. Sorry to get behind; I was out of town.) BMS: King Benjamin MBM: King Benjamin Scripture: Mosiah 5:7 Theme: We can follow Jesus Christ. Resources: 1. The June 1992 Friend has a flannel board for King Benjamin. 2. GAPK #307 3. Children’s Songbook #276 “Do As…