In November 2015, George Handley, associate dean of the College of Humanities at BYU, spoke on his journey of faith in an Education in Zion lecture that was later published in BYU Studies. Partially because of its timing and mainly because of its powerful message, his...
read morePlease note that this will not be available until July 19. We apologize for publishing the notice too early. Please check again on that date. Listen on the LDS Perspectives site, or directly with this link. From the New Testament, we learn that Jesus’s favorite mode...
read moreListen on the LDS Perspectives website, or on the direct link. References to a divine council of gods are found in several ancient Near Eastern cultures, including Mesopotamia, Greece, Egypt and Canaan. There are also numerous references to the divine counsel in the...
read moreListen on the LDS Perspectives Podcast website, or listen to the direct link. In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales visits with John Hilton III about teaching in church settings. John has spent a good deal of his adult life working in...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. In December 2013, Scott Hales bought himself an iPad and a digital drawing software program. He was in the final stages of finishing his PhD dissertation and was ready to try his hand at a lighter medium. Dusting...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Lisa Olsen Tait claims that Susa Young Gates is the most important Mormon woman that most have never heard of. Susa grew up in a time when cultural gender roles were changing and women’s opportunities were...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. David F. Holland is a respected scholar and Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. On October 29, 2016, he spoke on the topic “Latter-day Saints and the Problem of Pain” at the Neal A....
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio file. Finding a balance between loyalty or commitment to one’s faith and sympathetic openness to other faiths is one of the biggest challenges Mormons face in an age of inclusiveness. The classic “theology of religions”...
read moreVisit the website, or list to a direct audio link. Gale Boyd is an ethnic Jew who convert to the LDS Church. In 1983, she and her husband decided to move their family to Israel to explore their Jewish heritage. She was unprepared for the culture shock she experienced...
read moreListen from the website, or the direct audio file. By June 1829 Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer had verbalized a desire to be the special three witnesses alluded to in the Book of Mormon. D&C 17 records a revelation affirming their roles as...
read moreListen on the LDS Persectives site, or directly with this link. In 1835, the church published the Doctrine and Covenants, which contained significant additions to the 1833 Book of Commandments. At the beginning of the collection of revelations were seven theological...
read moreLink to the original podcast website, or list directly here. Don Harwell, Eddie Gist, and Wain Meyers make up the current Presidency of the Genesis Group of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Genesis Group was started in 1971 as a dependent branch of...
read moreListen on the LDS Perspectives website, or on the direct link. Jed Woodworth works in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is also the author of the Revelations in Context essay on Section 89 of the Doctrine and...
read moreListen on the LDS Perspective Podcast website, or directly, here. Robert L. Millet was the Abraham O. Smoot Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University and has spent years engaging in interfaith dialogue with scholars of many religious traditions. He...
read moreListen on the website, or through the direct audio link. Few aspects of Joseph Smith’s life have been scrutinized more in recent years than his personal practice of polygamy. Some readers’ first exposure to Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy comes from...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Last summer Russell Stevenson sat down with Rachel Steenblik and Caitlin Connolly, two women who have studied the concept of a divine feminine–or Heavenly Mother. Rachel was the primary researcher on a BYU...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio link. Leta Greene never thought she would grow up to be a beauty consultant and motivational speaker. But she has overcome the scars of emotional and physical abuse and feelings of awkwardness and ugliness to excel at...
read moreVisit the website, or listen to the direct audio file. Steven Harper points out that one of things the Revelations in Context series was designed to do was to encourage study of the history and doctrine of the LDS Church in order to get past folk doctrines. One of the...
read moreListen on the website, or directly from the audio file. Rita Wright is the curator for the Springfield Museum of Art. Formerly she taught art at Brigham Young University and was the curator for the LDS Church History Museum. Currently she sits on the worldwide...
read moreListen from the website, or directly from the audio file. Editors Jenny Reeder and Kate Holbrook, respectively 19th- and 20th-century women’s historians, discuss their multi-year project to bring LDS women’s speeches together in At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses...
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