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November 2016

November 30, 2016
Update: Between now and Dec 5, get 5$ off any physical Amazon book order of...
November 27, 2016
A few general notes about the Book of Ether. First, unlike the other two Book...
November 26, 2016
  Several things make next year extremely challenging for me. D&C is the book I have...
November 26, 2016
I'm combining these lessons for two reasons. First, lesson 44 (chapters 7-8) is included within...
November 12, 2016
Since I've already covered 3Ne 27-28 in previous posts, I'll focus on 4 Nephi.Why is...
November 06, 2016
A couple of notes first. I'll be in San Antonio for the annual joint Society of...
November 02, 2016
People are multi-faceted and complex. It's very easy to develop an attitude of putting either...

October 2016

October 29, 2016
I'm on the road and having technical problems. So I'm posting this rough, now, and...
October 27, 2016
The Improvement Era in September 1925 ran a short article in the Editor's Table called...
October 26, 2016
These chapters constitute the end of Day 1 of Jesus' visit (ends in 19:3) and...
October 16, 2016
I wrote four draft posts on Saturday, two for Gospel Doctrine lessons, and two on other...
October 08, 2016
Elder Eyring told a story in this recent General Conference. My father... was a seasoned...
October 08, 2016
Today we enter into a very interesting section of the Book of Mormon. Like the Isaiah chapters,...

September 2016

September 25, 2016
Let's begin with this observation about the power of art, by a BYU professor with...
September 25, 2016
First, it's that time of year wherein I start thinking about January, which means D&C
September 22, 2016
Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is, ironically, relatively young. I've written about its origins at Religion&Politics (start in...
September 17, 2016
Today we get to meet Samuel, who prophecies of, well, 3 Nephi, basically. What does it...
September 11, 2016
I originally wrote this about 10 years ago, reposted it five years ago, and since...
September 11, 2016
Classes have begun, and it's heavy. I spent today reading Schleiermacher's On Religion and a book about...
September 09, 2016
Living in New York for six years, I developed the habit of looking for new...
September 03, 2016
Today's text includes a good bit of carry-over from the war chapters, while adding political...

August 2016

August 20, 2016
Today we continue the war chapters, and get to read some military correspondence. I don't...
August 19, 2016
Several weeks ago, the Maxwell Institute's Studies in the Bible and Antiquity journal sponsored a small non-public...
August 06, 2016
As I've pointed out previously, the Book of Mormon moves at different paces in different places....
August 03, 2016
In a previous post, I detailed President McKay's explicit, published, written approval of a very...

July 2016

July 31, 2016
These chapters (and 39) are all focused on Corianton, who gets quite the paternal talk....
July 30, 2016
The Book of Mormon has a variable pace. Occasionally, we skip through decades or even hundreds...
July 24, 2016
First, the structure of the text. Alma 30-34 are really one unit, which we break...
July 23, 2016
I didn't grow up in Utah, and never heard of Pioneer Day until I was...
July 17, 2016
One of the things I've written about before is the problem of common, broad terminology, that...
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