The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a Gospel Topics essay on “Plural Marriage” which states: Latter-day Saints…
Author: Steve Reed
Steve Reed
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Did you know that the incense burned on the altar of the Israelite temple was composed of four different materials?…
This is how a single footnote in an essay led to a paradigm-shifting idea about theology that opens up some…
Ok, here is part 2 and I highly recommend watching part 1 first because there is no introduction here, we…
Ok, this episode is not going to be for everybody. I’m diving into an entire sermon without any preparation or…
Doctrines, principles, and laws are encoded into religions, belief systems, governments, and even the sciences. Some have lasted for thousands…
In his initial encounter with God, Moses sees a grand vision and then is left to himself and others the…
And it came to pass that there was a certain man, a traveler by trade, who journeyed through many lands,…
Stoning was one of the ways that people were put to death according to the law of Moses, if they…
In Mosiah 18:20 and 25:22 what did it mean that the preached nothing save/except it were repentance? I have some…
I was speaking to a brother-in-law of mine recently and we were discussing how we seek comfort and avoid discomfort.…
An exchange with some friends of mine reminded me of something. Maybe I’ve said this before here but it’s worth…
It’s very interesting how certain beliefs and teachings are common all around the world. Psychologist Carl Jung conducted some interesting…
The Lectures of Faith, or in other words, the “Doctrine” portion of the Doctrine & Covenants of the Church of…
It appears that Mormon, the abridger of Nephite history, intentionally framed the story of Alma the elder and his people…
I think I was about 17 when I experienced a pivotal, life-changing moment. The details surrounding the larger timeline of…
Jarom, the son of Enos, didn’t write much in the record concerning his own prophesying or revelations because he felt…
There is a group of patterns that I found in the Book of Enos that I think give some insights…
What are miracles? We’ll explore a little about how the Hebrews defined them and what the greatest miracle of all…
Several years ago when I was participating in the Church’s Institute of Religion program, our instructor Mike King shared some…
We all have a vision of a perfect world, one without all of the bad things that we wish were…