Sacred texts often conceal their key teachings behind patterns that only become clear upon closer examination. The Book of Mormon is designed in this way. Beneath its historical narrative lies a structure of repeated phrases, formulas, and literary patterns that…

This is one of my favorite all-time verses for a multitude of reasons but I was thinking about it a lot today and thought I put some of these ideas together.

At the end of my previous post, I threw out a kind of random petition to study the Book of Mormon and Isaiah and I feel like I should elaborate on that a little more. Several years ago, an Isaiah…