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Abraham and His Family
In Scripture, History, and Tradition
Saturday, May 3, 2025 and Saturday, May 10, 2025
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Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo
Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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This two-volume set (1100 pages total) seeks to enrich study of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith through essays by knowledgeable and faithful scholars on selected punctuation marks of Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo. While some of Joseph Smith’s contemporaries saw these events and doctrinal developments as evidence that he was a fallen prophet, modern Latter-day Saints, looking back, see them as a glorious culmination to a faithful life.
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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 18 (2025) — D&C 41–44
During 1978, 1979, and 1980, Hugh Nibley taught a Doctrine and Covenants Sunday School class. Cassette recordings were made of these classes and some have survived and were digitized by Steve Whitlock and recently enhanced by Nick Galieti. Most of the tapes were in...
Interpreter Radio Come, Follow Me: Doctrine & Covenants 41-44 for April 28 to May 4
In the April 6th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster, Brent Schmidt, and Hales Swift discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for April 28 to May 4, covering D&C 41-44. You can listen to or download...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — D&C 41–44
D&C 41 Preparation to Live “the Law” In obedience to the call to gather in Ohio (see D&C 37) Joseph Smith and his family have now moved to Kirtland, along with other members of the Church. Section 41 is the first of forty-six sections that Joseph...
Interpreter Radio Show — April 13, 2025
In the April 13, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen, with special guest Ignacio Garcia during the second hour. They discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for May...
Easter as Threshold: Trauma, Transformation, and God’s Presence in Liminal Spaces
Abstract: Using the context of Easter, this personal essay explores perceptions of God’s presence and absence during human suffering. There is a theological thread that ties Christ’s suffering for our griefs and sorrows during his Atonement directly to his ability to...
Reprint: Temple Themes in the Book of Abraham
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
The Heartland versus Mesoamerica — Part 1: A Foundation for Comparison
Part 1 ⎜ Part 2 ⎜ Part 3 ⎜ Part 4 ⎜ Part 5 ⎜ Part 6 ⎜ Part 7 ⎜ Part 8 ⎜ Part 9 ⎜ ...
“Go to Brigham Young and he shall tell thee what to do to be saved:” Marcus Holling’s Story
Wilford Woodruff wrote in his journal this small note for 22 July 1866. I…attended meeting at the Tabernacle Bowery…[in the] Afternoon Elder Hollings in English + German told how he was Brought into the Church He was a Episcopalien Minister + was...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — D&C 37–40
D&C 37-38 To Gather and to Receive His Law In a footnote to his October 2020 general conference talk, “Let God Prevail,” President Russell M. Nelson revealed that in the more than 800 talks he has given since being ordained an apostle in April 1984, he...
Interpreter Radio Show — April 6, 2025
In the April 6, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster, Brent Schmidt, and Hales Swift. They discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for April 28 to May 4, covering D&C 41-44, General Conference, and AI. You...
Interpreting Interpreter: Timing Christ’s Death
This post is a summary of the article “Spiritual Implications of the Timing of the Death of Jesus Christ” by C. Thomas Black in Volume 64 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Spiritual Implications of the Timing of the Death of Jesus Christ
Abstract: Centuries-long speculation continues regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the Savior. Whether he died sooner than would have been expected, as some scholars believe, or lived longer than expected, statements from the scriptures and modern-day...
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