- Jonathan Green on 2025 in Review: The Year of Hard Numbers and Heavy Books: “RLD, if you have some thoughts on the topic you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you.” Jan 2, 06:35
- on 2025 in Review: The Year of Hard Numbers and Heavy Books: “My copy of Sears’ A Modern Guide to an Old Testament should be arriving any day now. I wouldn’t say T&S has ignored it, as it’s been relevant to many broader discussions, but here’s the topic on my mind right now: How can we help young people retain their testimonies as they reach their mid-twenties and the subsequent decade or so? Their brains are fully mature, and they generally see things less in black and white. They’re more comfortable with nuance and ambiguity. But they’re also much less willing to simply dismiss information that challenges their world view. Some develop more complex testimonies, testimonies that their younger selves might call weaker but which are in fact much more resilient. Others let go of one truth claim only to have that lead to letting go of another, and another, until there’s nothing left. Others face an acute faith crisis and lose their testimonies all at once. What makes the difference? What can we who have been through that phase do to help them?” Jan 2, 05:34
- on Classic President Holland Talks: “Good list, and I completely agree with your comments (including those on Elder Maxwell). I’d add Like A Broken Vessel (October 2013). To the best of my knowledge, that was the first time a general authority spoke in conference about their own experience of mental illness. To a family that was struggling with mental illness at the time (and continues to do so) it’s hard to describe how meaningful that was. It did so much to reduce the stigma involved.” Jan 2, 05:21
- on 2025 in Review: The Year of Hard Numbers and Heavy Books: “Seconded. This is a great recap. I’ll try to keep the clickbait going in 2026.” Jan 1, 18:49
- on “As Far as It Is Translated Correctly”: The Bible and the Fulness of the Gospel: “That’s a good formulation of the issue. My own research has recently taken me into the 18th century in a serious way for the first time. There’s a lot of really interesting things going on there!” Jan 1, 18:48
- on A Christmas Gift for the Restoration: A Beginner’s Guide to B. H. Roberts: “Thanks TexasAbuelo!” Jan 1, 12:36
- on 2025 in Review: The Year of Hard Numbers and Heavy Books: “Thanks for all you do, Chad!” Jan 1, 11:35
- on Beyond the King James Version: The Church’s New Handbook Policy on Bible Translations: “Neither that fact that calls to the Qrm of the 12 are lifetime and nor the fact that the most senior Apostle automatically becomes president are new…Apparently this is an effort to silence questioners, educate new members, and to put to rest speculation by sticking in the Handbook something that was simply established Priesthood principle and protocol. Its a testament to how far we’ve wandered from what even 10 or 15 years ago was an unstated but understood unwritten order of things passed down from one generation of priesthood leaders to the next. As to the approved multiple translations we’re heading to the proverbial “to me its a mass of confusion “though maybe at this point, with so few members actually studying the scriptures vs listening to blogs and podcasts about the scriptures, and GC talks ad infinitum, it won’t make much difference.” Jan 1, 09:32
- on A Christmas Gift for the Restoration: A Beginner’s Guide to B. H. Roberts: “Thank you for doing this … started it on New Year’s Eve once I was sure my guys (Miami) were advancing in the playoffs… couldn’t put it down. It’s obvious you invested a ton of work in it. Took the liberty of forwarding to my brothers. We’re in our 70’s but love reading.Thanks” Jan 1, 09:05
- on Your Reactions to Church Yesterday, 12/28: “Missed this Sunday, but last Sunday was the ward Christmas program. Good music, and quite a variety. Rather than reading scripture passages each speaker bore a short testimony of a time Christ had helped them. Very moving” Dec 30, 22:59
