There is a lot of repetition in religious life from rituals to ordinances, practices, and even scripture reading. Let’s take scriptures as an example and I’ll let you think about how the metaphor applies to other things. First, imagine you…

In Alma 37, Alma the Younger describes the meaning of certain relics to his son, Helaman who is about to come into possession of them. The Liahona, Interpreters, and Gold Plates were among the items placed in Moroni’s box that…

“I then remarked that marriage was an institution of h[e]aven institude [instituted] in the garden of Eden, that it was necessary that it should be Solemnized by the authority of the everlasting priesthood,” (from a Joseph Smith journal entry, Nov.…