Every now and then, someone will point to Isaiah 4:1 and claim it as a prophetic endorsement of polygamy in…
Lecture Five of the Lectures on Faith is often brushed aside today as an “early” or “incomplete” attempt to define…
Alma wrote this to his son, Helaman about the brass plates: And these plates of brass, which contain these engravings,…
This isn’t a deep dive, just a couple of recent observations from Ammon’s mission to the Lamanites starting with his…
I was invited to come onto The Stick of Joseph show recently and presented some ideas from an old post…
I was reading Alma 15 and came across this verse: …the people were checked as to the pride of their…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a Gospel Topics essay on “Plural Marriage” which states: Latter-day Saints…
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…