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“That Which They Most Desired”: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain

by Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 11, 2020 | 2 comments

One Day to a Cubit

by Hollis R. Johnson | Feb 15, 2013 | 22 comments

Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon

by Neal Rappleye | Mar 11, 2022 | 3 comments

Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ

by Gregory L. Smith | Mar 5, 2021 | 6 comments

Job: An LDS Reading

by Mack C. Stirling | Oct 3, 2014 | 6 comments

Job: An LDS Reading

by Mack C. Stirling | May 17, 2021 | 4 comments

On Doctrine and Covenants Language and the 1833 Plot of Zion

by Stanford Carmack | Sep 1, 2017 | 10 comments

Putting Down the Priests: A Note on Royal Evaluations, (wĕ)hišbît, and Priestly Purges in 2 Kings 23:5 and Mosiah 11:5

by Matthew L. Bowen | Apr 22, 2022 | 2 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 15, 2019 | 14 comments

A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse

by Charles Dike | Aug 12, 2022 | 7 comments

Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement

by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen | Jul 19, 2021 | 2 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 19: On Uto-Aztecan

by Kyler Rasmussen | Nov 10, 2021 | 17 comments

Procedural Violations in the Trial of the Woman Taken in Adultery

by Steven T. Densley, Jr. | Apr 26, 2019 | 6 comments

Despite All We Can Do with Daniel O. McClellan

by LDS Perspectives | Mar 18, 2020 | 13 comments

Times of Reckoning and Set Times in Abraham 3

by J. Ward Moody | Jun 26, 2020 | 1 comment

How Joseph Smith’s Grammar Differed from Book of Mormon Grammar: Evidence from the 1832 History

by Stanford Carmack | Jun 9, 2017 | 22 comments

Largely Shadow, Short of Reality

by Allen Wyatt | Nov 17, 2023 | 3 comments

Tree of Life, Tree of Healing

by John A. Tvedtnes | Feb 1, 2021 | 0 comments

I Don’t Have a Testimony of the History of the Church

by Davis Bitton | Mar 22, 2019 | 6 comments

Peter’s Tears

by Steven L. Olsen | Jul 26, 2013 | 15 comments

Itty Bitty Books with Big Lessons: Enos, Jarom, Omni

by Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye | Dec 11, 2020 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 4: On Nephite Genetics

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jul 28, 2021 | 28 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 15: On Trajectories of Truth

by Kyler Rasmussen | Oct 13, 2021 | 4 comments

Our Faithful Lord: Passover to Easter

by Rebecca Reynolds Lambert | Apr 15, 2022 | 2 comments

Trees and the Love of God

by David M. Belnap and Nalini M. Nadkarni | Feb 16, 2024 | 2 comments

“Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure unto Me.” Exodus 15-20; 32-34

by Taylor Halverson | Mar 29, 2014 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 21: On Onomastic Origins

by Kyler Rasmussen | Nov 24, 2021 | 5 comments

Nephi’s Eight Years in the “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions and Details

by Godfrey J. Ellis | Jul 28, 2023 | 26 comments

A Precious Resource with Some Gaps

by Jeff Lindsay | Jul 19, 2019 | 42 comments

“By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen | Mar 24, 2017 | 2 comments

Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Oct 25, 2021 | 2 comments

Image is Everything: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

by Kevin Christensen | Oct 16, 2015 | 14 comments

“Endless Forms Most Beautiful”: The uses and abuses of evolutionary biology in six works

by Gregory L. Smith | Aug 23, 2013 | 59 comments

Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest: Observations on the Inevitable Consequences of the Different Investigative Approaches of Jeremy Runnells and Jeff Lindsay

by Kevin Christensen | Jun 13, 2014 | 172 comments

Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms

by Stephen O. Smoot | Sep 24, 2021 | 5 comments

Rethinking Alma 36

by Noel B. Reynolds | Jan 24, 2020 | 3 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 14: On the Lost and Found (and Digging in the Ground)

by Kyler Rasmussen | Oct 6, 2021 | 44 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 1: On Ages and Pages

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jul 7, 2021 | 49 comments

“Most Desirable Above All Things”: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon

by Matthew L. Bowen | Nov 21, 2014 | 12 comments

Mormonism and the Scientific Persistence of Circles: Aristotle, Spacetime, and One Eternal Round

by Elizabeth Nielson | Apr 15, 2016 | 4 comments

Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jun 1, 2020 | 2 comments

Comparing Book of Mormon Names with Those Found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works: An Exploratory Study

by Brad Wilcox, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Bruce L. Brown and Sharon Black | Oct 19, 2018 | 3 comments

Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon

by Robert F. Smith | Jan 18, 2021 | 0 comments

The Literary Structure of Alma 17–20: A 14-Unit Chiasm

by Derek Squire | Jan 12, 2024 | 0 comments

Should We Apologize for Apologetics?

by Steven T. Densley, Jr. | Oct 20, 2017 | 29 comments

Reflecting on the “Marks of Jesus”

by Daniel C. Peterson | Jul 1, 2016 | 10 comments

Māori Latter-day Saint Faith: Some Preliminary Remarks

by Louis C. Midgley | Dec 13, 2013 | 16 comments

Marjorie Newton’s Account of the Faith of the Māori Saints: A Critical Appraisal

by Louis C. Midgley | Nov 9, 2018 | 26 comments

Sophic Box and Mantic Vista: A Review of Deconstructing Mormonism

by Kevin Christensen | Oct 11, 2013 | 17 comments

Inattentional Blindness: Seeing and Not Seeing The Book of Mormon

by Robert A. Rees | Sep 5, 2014 | 10 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 3: On an Improbable Dictation

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jul 21, 2021 | 10 comments

Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Structural Evidences of Earlier Ancient versus Later Modern Constructions)

by Gerald E. Smith | Dec 9, 2016 | 17 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 18: On Imperfect Prophets

by Kyler Rasmussen | Nov 3, 2021 | 9 comments

Centered on Christ: The Book of Enos Possibly Structured Chiastically

by Stephen Kent Ehat | Sep 29, 2023 | 3 comments

Vox Populi and Vox Dei: Allusive Explorations of Biblical and Book of Mormon Politeias

by Alan Goff | Aug 27, 2021 | 2 comments

The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity

by Newell D. Wright and Val Larsen | Jun 9, 2023 | 9 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 25: Did Lucy Harris Support the Book of Mormon?

by Administration | Oct 8, 2022 | 1 comment

“O God Where Art Thou?” D&C 121, 122

by Taylor Halverson | Nov 29, 2013 | 2 comments

“This Son Shall Comfort Us”: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs

by Matthew L. Bowen | Feb 3, 2017 | 4 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Some Priestly Put-Downs

by Kyler Rasmussen | Apr 22, 2022 | 0 comments

Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon

by Brian C. Hales | Feb 15, 2019 | 29 comments

Essay #77: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision? (Genesis 9)

by Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Stephen T. Whitlock | Oct 16, 2021 | 0 comments

Demythicizing the Lamanites’ “Skin of Blackness”

by Gerrit M. Steenblik | Dec 10, 2021 | 32 comments

Reason, Experience, and the Existence of God

by Daniel C. Peterson | Oct 31, 2014 | 8 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 8: On Very Long Boat Rides

by Kyler Rasmussen | Aug 25, 2021 | 14 comments

New Light and Old Shadows: John G. Turner’s Attempt to Understand Brigham Young

by Craig L. Foster | Feb 8, 2013 | 6 comments

Lehi’s Dream and the Garden of Eden

by David M. Calabro | Aug 25, 2017 | 18 comments

KnoWhy OTL15A — How Do the Serpent and the Shewbread Symbolize Christ?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Apr 19, 2018 | 0 comments

Ancient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part Two

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen | Mar 8, 2013 | 2 comments

Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Sep 9, 2022 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 13: On Inverting Parallels

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 29, 2021 | 14 comments

“Wherefore, for This Cause”: The Book of Mormon as Anti-type of the Brass Serpent

by Matthew Scott Stenson | Mar 12, 2021 | 4 comments

Jesus’ First Visit to the Temple

by S. Kent Brown | Jun 7, 2021 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 12: On Hebraic Views and Late Wars

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 22, 2021 | 0 comments

The Next Big Thing in LDS Apologetics: Strong Semitic and Egyptian Elements in Uto-Aztecan Languages

by Jeff Lindsay | Aug 18, 2017 | 30 comments

Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality

by Richard L. Bushman | Aug 16, 2021 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 6: On a Disagreeable God

by Kyler Rasmussen | Aug 11, 2021 | 6 comments

Atheist Piety: A Religion of Dogmatic Dubiety

by Louis C. Midgley | Sep 7, 2012 | 2 comments

Degrees of Glory: A Brief History of Heaven and Graded Salvation

by Jim Hansen | Nov 3, 2023 | 11 comments

An Approach to History

by Allen Wyatt | Mar 22, 2019 | 6 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 6: Sidney Rigdon and the Witnesses

by Administration | May 28, 2022 | 0 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 17: On Geographical Consistency

by Kyler Rasmussen | Oct 27, 2021 | 8 comments

Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes

by Noel B. Reynolds | Mar 4, 2022 | 8 comments

“To Seek the Law of the Lord”

by James R. Rasband, Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson | Aug 17, 2020 | 0 comments

Joseph Smith’s Universe vs. Some Wonders of Chinese Science Fiction

by Jeff Lindsay | Jun 22, 2018 | 8 comments

Nephi’s Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Literary Record

by Taylor Halverson | Jun 25, 2021 | 1 comment

Acts 21-28. Faithfully Witness of Christ

by Taylor Halverson | Oct 10, 2015 | 2 comments

Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen and Stephen T. Whitlock | Jul 24, 2020 | 4 comments

Christ and the Work of Suffering

by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye | Apr 10, 2020 | 7 comments

Nephi: A Postmodernist Reading

by Benjamin L. McGuire | Sep 5, 2014 | 3 comments

Fashion or Proof? A Challenge for Pacific Anthropology

by A. Keith Thompson | Feb 14, 2014 | 4 comments

Old Testament Commentary: Genesis 21-23 Abraham’s Greatest Test

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Feb 10, 2022

KnoWhy OTL05C — Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn On Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jan 26, 2018 | 4 comments

Answering the Critics in 44 Rebuttal Points

by Brian D. Stubbs | Jun 5, 2020 | 16 comments

A Backstory for the Brass Plates

by Noel B. Reynolds | Oct 21, 2022 | 2 comments

“Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham

by John S. Thompson | Dec 2, 2022 | 24 comments

John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Prophet: Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon

by Matthew Roper | Aug 28, 2015 | 10 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 11: On Imprinted Words

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 15, 2021 | 12 comments

Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?: Recent Updates on a Persistent Question

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Ryan Dahle | Oct 4, 2019 | 15 comments

Making Visible the Beauty and Goodness of the Gospel

by Daniel C. Peterson | Dec 4, 2015 | 11 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 23: Why did Martin Harris Join So Many Churches?

by Administration | Sep 24, 2022 | 0 comments

Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew as the Language of Magic

by Andrew C. Skinner | Dec 28, 2020 | 0 comments

The Pathophysiology of the Death of Jesus the Christ

by C. Thomas Black | Oct 4, 2024 | 7 comments

A Long and Winding Road

by Allen Wyatt | Dec 29, 2023 | 6 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: A D&C 21 Deep Dive

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jun 16, 2023 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 14: Plural Marriage – Part 2

by Administration | Jul 23, 2022 | 0 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 20: On Place-Name Plagiarism

by Kyler Rasmussen | Nov 17, 2021 | 3 comments

Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon

by Daniel C. Peterson | Mar 19, 2021 | 3 comments

Consecration Brings Forth Zion, Not Just Disaster Relief: An Examination of Scholarly and Prophetic Statements on the Law of Consecration

by Richard D. Gardner | Aug 11, 2017 | 10 comments

Donate

by Administration | Sep 22, 2017

Proper Names and Political Claims: Semitic Echoes as Foundations for Claims to the Nephite Throne

by Lyle H. Hamblin | Mar 1, 2024 | 8 comments

The Imperative for a Historical Book of Mormon

by Stephen O. Smoot | Oct 20, 2013 | 154 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 18: Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?

by Administration | Aug 20, 2022 | 1 comment

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 0: On Quantifying Skepticism

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jun 30, 2021 | 24 comments

“We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph”: Moroni’s Interpretive Use of Joseph’s Coat and the Martial nēs-Imagery of Isaiah 11:11–12

by Matthew L. Bowen | Dec 4, 2020 | 4 comments

“I Kneeled Down Before My Maker”: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos

by Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 22, 2017 | 10 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 5: On Witnesses

by Kyler Rasmussen | Aug 4, 2021 | 8 comments

David Whitmer Photograph Retouched and Colorized

by Bryce M. Haymond | Mar 16, 2013 | 12 comments

Purchasing a Gift Subscription of Interpreter

by Administration | Apr 6, 2015 | 0 comments

The Late War Against the Book of Mormon

by Benjamin L. McGuire | Nov 1, 2013 | 83 comments

The Sibling Scandals of the Resurrection

by Daniel C. Peterson | Aug 22, 2014 | 8 comments

Whoso Forbiddeth to Abstain from Meats

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

An Important Addition to the Library

by Kevin Christensen | Jan 26, 2024 | 10 comments

Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya)

by Bruce E. Dale and Brian Dale | May 3, 2019 | 446 comments

“In This Batter’d Caravanserai”

by Daniel C. Peterson | May 26, 2023 | 3 comments

“In the Cause … of their God”: Clarifying Some Issues Regarding the Book of Mormon and a Gospel View of War

by Duane Boyce | Apr 28, 2023 | 1 comment

Temporal Mercies and Eternal Being: Using the Science of Time to Understand God’s Nature and Our Own

by Jared R. Stenson | Aug 14, 2020 | 10 comments

“O Ye Fair Ones” — Revisited

by Matthew L. Bowen | Jun 23, 2016 | 7 comments

Mormon and Moroni’s Rhetoric: Reflections Inspired by Grant Hardy’s Understanding the Book of Mormon

by Val Larsen | May 10, 2024 | 81 comments

Abinadi: A Minor Prophet, A Major Contributor

by Andrew C. Smith | Apr 6, 2018 | 0 comments

The Diachronic Usage of Exclamation Marks across the Major Book of Mormon Editions

by Scott L. Howell, Brooke Anderson, LaReina Hingson, Lanna McRae, Jesse Vincent and Brandon Torruella | Nov 4, 2022 | 1 comment

Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations

by Kerry Muhlestein | Sep 23, 2016 | 1 comment

The Prophets Who Wrote the Book of Omni

by Clifford P. Jones | Jan 3, 2020 | 7 comments

Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 31, 2020 | 5 comments

Conversations with Mormon Historians

by Craig L. Foster | Apr 29, 2016 | 1 comment

The Pleading Bar of God

by Royal Skousen | Jan 11, 2021 | 10 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 23: On Conclusions

by Kyler Rasmussen | Dec 8, 2021 | 11 comments

“They Shall No More Be Confounded”: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31

by Matthew L. Bowen | Oct 12, 2018 | 3 comments

Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David

by Taylor Halverson | Dec 8, 2023 | 1 comment

Seeing Psalms as the Libretti of a Holy Drama

by Janet Ewell | Mar 15, 2019 | 2 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 5: Blessings of Kirtland

by Administration | May 21, 2022 | 0 comments

“I Will Come to You”: An Investigation of Early Christian Beliefs about Post-Ascension Visitations of the Risen Jesus

by Timothy Gervais | Jun 30, 2023 | 1 comment

Essay #28: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping of Enoch (Moses 7:28–43)

by Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Jacob A. Rennaker and David J. Larsen | Nov 7, 2020 | 0 comments

Oh, That I Were an Angel!

by Daniel C. Peterson | Nov 5, 2021 | 2 comments

The Teachings of Silvanus: A Little-Known Gem from Nag Hammadi

by Dennis Newton | Apr 14, 2023 | 3 comments

It’s the Most Generous Time of the Year

by Daniel C. Peterson | Nov 28, 2022 | 0 comments

Father Is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the Name Abish in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context

by Matthew L. Bowen | Feb 6, 2015 | 23 comments

Galatians, the Law and the Works of the Flesh

by Hales Swift | Sep 26, 2019 | 7 comments

Hugh Nibley on Revelation, Reason, and Rhetoric

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Apr 15, 2021 | 0 comments

The Apocryphal Acts of Jesus

by John Gee | Dec 7, 2012 | 3 comments

Teachings and Testimony of the First Vision: President Hinckley Comments on Joseph Smith’s and the Church’s Critics

by Dennis B. Horne | Mar 28, 2020 | 2 comments

Scriptures through the Jeweler’s Lens

by Mark J. Johnson | Feb 28, 2020 | 6 comments

The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical “Mesoamerican” Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon

by Matthew Roper | Aug 21, 2015 | 21 comments

Discipleship of Yesterday for Today

by Matt Gardner | Feb 14, 2020 | 1 comment

In His Footsteps: Ammon₁ and Ammon₂

by Val Larsen | Jan 11, 2013 | 17 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: A Prophet, Not a King

by Kyler Rasmussen | Dec 8, 2023 | 2 comments

“Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates

by Jeff Lindsay and Noel B. Reynolds | Mar 26, 2021 | 10 comments

An Elegant Book on Gifts, Gifting, and Remembering

by Louis C. Midgley | May 6, 2022 | 3 comments

Lehi’s Dream, Nephi’s Blueprint: How Nephi Uses the Vision of the Tree of Life as an Outline for 1 and 2 Nephi

by Noel B. Reynolds | Aug 5, 2022 | 3 comments

Scriptures with Pictures: Methodology, Unexamined Assumptions, and the Study of the Book of Abraham

by Mark J. Johnson | Apr 7, 2017 | 17 comments

Assessing the Criticisms of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages

by Craig L. Foster | Feb 22, 2019 | 11 comments

“The Messiah Will Set Himself Again”: Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2

by Matthew L. Bowen | Apr 16, 2021 | 1 comment

Getting into the Meat of the Word of Wisdom

by A. Jane Birch | Jul 11, 2014 | 25 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon's Book: 1 Nephi 19:1-21

by Brant A. Gardner | May 24, 2014 | 0 comments

KnoWhy OTL14A — What Similarities Are There Between Egyptian and Israelite Temples?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Apr 17, 2018 | 0 comments

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 19: Why the Witnesses Project?

by Administration | Aug 27, 2022 | 0 comments

KnoWhy OTL09A — Must Every Disciple Make an Abrahamic Sacrifice?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Feb 27, 2018 | 9 comments

The Lives of Abraham: Seeing Abraham through the Eyes of Second-Temple Jews

by Taylor Halverson | May 31, 2019 | 1 comment

KnoWhy OTL19A — Why and How Should We Study the Old Testament?

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | May 14, 2018 | 0 comments

Exploring the Symbolism of Christ in Ancient Christmas Carols and Traditions 4: The French Villagers Who Witnessed Christ’s Birth in Bethlehem

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Dec 21, 2020 | 0 comments

When an Evident Fact Cannot Be Allowed to Be True

by Daniel C. Peterson | Nov 11, 2022 | 3 comments

The Last Nephite Scribes

by Noel B. Reynolds | Sep 30, 2022 | 2 comments

The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book: A Twenty-first Century Believer’s View of the Book of Mormon Translation

by Roger Nicholson | Jun 7, 2013 | 36 comments

A Welcome Introduction

by Gregory L. Smith | Apr 10, 2015 | 4 comments

Adam Miller’s New Hermeneutic?

by Robert F. Smith | Jul 5, 2013 | 0 comments

Playing to an Audience: A Review of Revelatory Events

by Kevin Christensen | Feb 2, 2018 | 4 comments

Welding Another Link in Wonder’s Chain: The Task of Latter-day Saint Intellectuals in the Church’s Third Century

by Nathan B. Oman | Aug 9, 2019 | 22 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Contrasting Mosiah’s Dynasties

by Kyler Rasmussen | Feb 23, 2024 | 0 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 16 – 18

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 27, 2019 | 2 comments

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 of 2

by Jeff Lindsay | Apr 15, 2016 | 17 comments

Pixelated Prophets: A History and Analysis of Book-of-Mormon-Themed Video Games

by Geoffrey M. Draper and Aaron M. Curtis | Dec 15, 2023 | 2 comments

“Come unto Me” as a Technical Gospel Term

by Noel B. Reynolds | Jan 4, 2019 | 7 comments

Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?

by Stanford Carmack | Mar 16, 2018 | 16 comments

Matthew 1 and Luke 1. Testimonies of Jesus

by Taylor Halverson | Jan 4, 2015 | 1 comment

The Crucifixion as a Mockery, Witness, and Warning of the Judgment

by George L. Mitton | Apr 19, 2019 | 9 comments

Estimating the Evidence, Episode 10: On Plagiarizing the King James

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 8, 2021 | 17 comments

Unavailable Genetic Evidence, Multiple Simultaneous Promised Lands, and Lamanites by Location? Possible Ramifications of the Book of Mormon Limited Geography Theory

by Brian C. Hales | Apr 21, 2023 | 35 comments

Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

by Zina Petersen | Oct 4, 2013 | 12 comments

Essay #20: The Teachings of Enoch — “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified” (Moses 6:60)

by Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 12, 2020 | 0 comments

“The Great and Terrible Judgments of the Lord”: Destruction and Disaster in 3 Nephi and the Geology of Mesoamerica

by Neal Rappleye | May 29, 2015 | 4 comments

The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah

by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Mar 29, 2021 | 2 comments

The Interpreter Foundation and an Apostolic Charge

by Daniel C. Peterson | Dec 28, 2018 | 52 comments

Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion

by Louis C. Midgley | Oct 19, 2020 | 4 comments

Lehi’s Dream and the Plan of Salvation

by Ryan Atwood | May 29, 2020 | 1 comment

Reflecting on Gospel Scholarship with Abū al-Walīd and Abū Ḥāmid

by Daniel C. Peterson | Feb 22, 2013 | 3 comments

A Perspective on the Church and the Gospel

by John L. Sorenson | Jun 6, 2014 | 4 comments

“For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8

by Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 23, 2022 | 0 comments

A Masterpiece on Resisting Our Impulses to Leave

by Daniel Ortner | Dec 17, 2021 | 2 comments

Essay #58: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Symbolism of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life (Moses 3:9)

by Book of Mormon Central and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Jun 5, 2021 | 1 comment

Interpreting Interpreter: On Abstracting Thought

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jan 21, 2022 | 1 comment