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Loren Blake Spendlove

About Loren Blake Spendlove

Loren Spendlove has earned the following degrees: MA, Jewish Studies, PhD, Education, and Master of Business Administration (MBA). He is currently working on a MA in Christian Scripture. He has worked in many professional fields, including academics and corporate financial management. A student of languages, his research interests center on linguistics and etymology. Loren and Tina are the parents of five children and 12 grandchildren.

Jeremiah “the Prophet”

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 25, 2025 | 5 comments

Witness of the Covenant

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Sep 15, 2023 | 12 comments

Stained Swords: A Psalm of Redemption

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Dec 30, 2022 | 1 comment

Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 25, 2022 | 9 comments

Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Sep 9, 2022 | 2 comments

There Is No Beauty That We Should Desire Him

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Aug 26, 2022 | 3 comments

The Word of the Lord as a Metonym for Christ

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Dec 3, 2021 | 6 comments

Abraham’s Amen and Believing in Christ: Possible Applications in the Book of Mormon Text

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 19, 2021 | 4 comments

Mine House is a House of Zion and not a House of Babylon!

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Oct 29, 2021 | 3 comments

Discipleship As the World Collapses Around You

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jun 4, 2021 | 0 comments

And the One Pointed the Way: Issues of Interpretation and Translation Involving the Liahona

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 30, 2021 | 16 comments

Now If This Is Boasting, Even So Will I Boast!

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 3, 2020 | 8 comments

“Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins”: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,

by Matthew L. Bowen and Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 13, 2018 | 4 comments

A Tibetan Parable

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Mar 11, 2017 | 1 comment

Turning to the Lord With the Whole Heart: The Doctrine of Repentance in the Bible and the Book of Mormon

by Loren Blake Spendlove and Tina Spendlove | Jun 10, 2016 | 3 comments

Say Now Shibboleth, or Maybe Cumorah

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 24, 2015 | 9 comments

Whoso Forbiddeth to Abstain from Meats

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jan 16, 2015 | 29 comments

Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jul 25, 2014 | 7 comments

Limhi’s Discourse: Proximity and Distance in Teaching

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 15, 2013 | 3 comments

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