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After returning from my full-time missionary service, I started work with my father building decks down on the Gulf Coast of Texas. I remember standing there one morning and thinking about how life was now entering a new phase and…

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…

The Lectures on Faith is a fantastic addition to the doctrinal knowledge base of the Latter-day Saints. They were part of the Doctrine and Covenants for almost 100 years and were separated from the canon on the grounds that they…

I was speaking recently with Todd McLaughlin, who introduced me to the work of Robert Kay and his YouTube channel and blog “Mormon Yeshiva.” If you like my content here on oneClimbs about symbolism, you’ll love Robert Kay’s stuff. Here…

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There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom. The providential event appears…

Here is a great video that was produced that presents an account provided by William W. Phelps of what he allegedly heard Joseph Smith tell him about the last dream he had before he was martyred.