Something I’ve wondered for a while was what the original order of content on the gold plates was. We had a huge portion lost, and in Don Bradley’s book The Lost 116 Pages, he estimates that it may have been…

Today in church we had a lesson on the doctrine of the “three degrees of glory”. A comment seemed to indicate a feeling that inheriting a particular lower degree of glory as your eternal home with no chance of progression…

A recent post on Junior Ganymede mentions the ritual bath called a mikveh where Jews practiced ritual immersions in pools of water. The parallels to Christian baptism (which means to dip or immerse) are many. In both rituals the purpose of…