Several months ago, we introduced our Gospel Doctrine Lesson indexes, one for each year of Gospel Doctrine classes, with little fanfare. Each index provides links for each class to the official Church lesson materials, to our Scripture Roundtable discussion for that lesson, and to other articles on our sites relevant to the lesson. While organized around the Gospel Doctrine lessons, we recognize that the indexes are also useful for personal and family scripture study, and have provided them for all four years: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants and Church History.
We are currently expanding the indexes to include additional materials available on ChurchofJesusChrist.org and relevant material from other sites, including links to:
- Charts, maps and other supporting material from the Study Helps pages of ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
- Videos on the Bible Videos section of ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
- All of the KnoWhy articles at Book of Mormon Central, including links in the Old Testament Index.
- Articles from the Revelations in Context section of history.churchofjesuschrist.org.
- The Discussions on the Scriptures roundtables produced by BYUtv years ago.
The last two items above are still being worked on and will be completed in the coming weeks. We are continually seeking additional material to add to these indexes that is both doctrinally sound and that expands the usefulness of the pages. We have added a suggestion form to each of the pages so that you can send us suggestions for additional sites, articles, and other material to add.
We ask that you share the availability of these indexes with your family and friends. (Perhaps with your local seminary, institute, or Gospel Doctrine instructors?) We welcome your feedback and hope that you find these resources valuable and enriching.
You might consider linking to your resource in this post.
One other source for resources that I have found helpful is the BYU Religious Studies Center (https://rsc.byu.edu/my-gospel-study). Especially the Religious Educator magazine articles (https://rsc.byu.edu/tre/volumes). Though, the book chapters are often insightful as well (https://rsc.byu.edu/books).
For the 40th anniversary of the RSC, Elder Holland gave an interview where he said, in part:
Wayment: Yes. I wonder if you could reflect if you saw the RSC being involved in helping teachers prepare. It’s a little bit of a different component.
Elder Holland: It is different. I actually cannot say that 30 years ago (whenever I was thinking about this). I do not know that I thought then so much about the Gospel Doctrine teacher or the sister preparing her Relief Society lesson. But I am thrilled to think about serving them. In this day and age with technology available to us—the use of websites, apps, and all kinds of devices that are available—it would be sad, truly unfortunate if we did not serve as many interested parties as possible. But I have to say I did not anticipate that. I was essentially trying to find a way to bless and help young faculty, and, as I said, get some order in our little part of the vineyard down there at the university. But your wider world now is just a testimony to what happens with good things when the ideas are right and the effort that’s put into it is vigorous and inspired—a lot of great things happen. The only thing I would say at this point is I strongly encourage teachers to prepare earlier than Sunday morning, but that is a story for another day. I am happy that your website is being used.
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/re-16-no-2-2015/rsc-turns-forty-conversation-elder-jeffrey-r-holland
I’ve been using this resource to help me prepare my Gospel Doctrine lesson for a few months. It’s incredibly useful!